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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
What a great movie. One thing to keep in mind about the portrayal of the Waynes, or sympathy for Arthur..everything is being told from Joker's point of view.The ending may even indicate that he is making everything up and that is the joke
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There’s limits to that. The idea that the whole movie is fabricated is borderline offensive to the viewer. There’s nothing lamer than the whole “it was all a dream” trope. We have to assume that significant parts of it were real. Especially things we saw that seemed to directly affect and be acknowledged by other characters.
Given that his final joke began right when they cut to a shot of Bruce in the alley way, I was thinking that Joker was imagining a scenario where he himself created his greatest foe, and eventual downfall. Cyclical type thing. T. Wayne helped create Joker, Joker helps create Batman by getting T. Wayne killed, Batman becomes his arch nemesis whose goal is to clean up Gotham. Otherwise it seems weird to have him start to tell that joke right when they show that alley.