Why is there so much hatred for "Joker - Folie a Deux" ?

[DetlefK]

The premise is fairly simple: A man is on trial for the murders he committed, and at the same time he struggles with his mental illness in jail.

I actually liked it. It's a good movie.

But SOME people expected a generic comicbook-movie with explosions and over-the-top action-scenes. And what they got was a psychological drama.



My guess is, what really broke those fans was the moment when Arthur Fleck decided to not go into an extended rant how being mistreated by society justifies violence. When the movie-character "the Joker" deprived these real-life fans of what they really wanted to hear: That being an outcast makes you special snowflake, and that pseudo-intellectual, self-absorbed, generalizing rants about the failures of society mean that you are not only smarter but also morally a better person than those sheep who think that violence is wrong.

They wanted from this movie an explosive grandiose hate-filled rant against society that justifies their self-declared victimhood and their preconceived political opinions. Instead the "hero" of the movie told them that they are wrong and that hatred is not the answer.