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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (5)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (3)
- Spoilers (16)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- A bare chested male can be seen dancing in his underwear. The scene is not meant to be sexual.
- When Arthur is telling jokes on stage, he flips through his notebook quickly showing a picture of a nude sketch. But this is nearly impossible to spot.
- Arthur washes his mother in a bathtub but nothing is shown.
- Probably less than a minute in the movie you see an inappropriate billboard that says "Strip Search" with three women that look naked but it's not detailed.
- Billboard towards the end of the movie that says "Ace in the Hole" with a woman arching her back. Shown for maybe a minute or two and gets blurred out as the focus goes elsewhere.
Violence & Gore
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- A man is shot by a police officer on the subway. No blood seen.
- Violence is a theme throughout most of this film, people are shot in the head on a few occasions, with blood splattering. It's not quite horror film levels, but some scenes are particularly shocking.
- The film contains a few shootings and stabbings with brief injury detail. While it's not excessively bloody or gory, it's in your face when it happens and mostly used for impact.
- The violence is realistic and quite strong, but it isn't very detailed. There's no gore and the blood sprays are mild to moderate, and we also never really see any wounds or injury detail other than the bloodshed present.
Profanity
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- 27 uses of "fuck" (a few of which are hard to hear without captions), and a few uses of "shit", as well as milder terms such as "prick" and "asshole".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Arthur Fleck smokes frequently throughout the film.
- Three men are shown drunk in the subway.
- The main character smokes a lot and takes medication. However, neither are used in violent or abusive ways.
- Frequent cigarette smoking. Main character takes prescription pills. The Joker's first victims are drunk and abusive.
- Moderate drug references throughout.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- This is an incredibly dark, serious movie. It revolves around a man who is mentally ill and has a condition where he laughs uncontrollably, even in serious situations. Throughout the movie, he gains a sick twisted sense of humor that revolves around death and chaos.
- Throughout the movie the main character is constantly tormented by society and mistreated by pretty much everyone he comes into contact with. He is punched in the face, kicked at while being helpless on the ground, and called names. All of this inspires him to dress up as a clown and become a criminal.
- The Joker commits several violent crimes throughout the film, and although the violence is not too frequent, all of the scenes in which The Joker commits the crimes are particularly shocking although not too gruesome.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- Man knocks on a neighbor woman's apartment door. When she answers he grabs and kisses her passionately. They close the door behind them; this might imply sex. We find out later that this interaction was simply imaginary.
Violence & Gore
- Arthur stabs Randall twice, once in the throat and then in the eye with blood spraying everywhere, then rams his head repeatedly against the wall 11 times, leaving a giant blood splatter. This is without a doubt the most violent part in the movie, although it's not too detailed due to the quick editing. Nonetheless, this scene is the main reason for the film's R rating.
- A man falls on the floor and is kicked repeatedly by three men until he pulls out a handgun and shoots one man twice in the chest (we see some blood spray on the walls), another man in the head, and the third man in the leg, before following him to shoot him another three times.
- Arthur's mother is smothered with a pillow (out of frame).
- Arthur walks away from a room with bloody footprints, implying that he may have murdered a person in the room.
- Two officers are beaten by a mob of rioters on the subway.
- Near the end of the film, another vehicle crashes into the police car Arthur is in. The crash happens quickly; when Arthur is taken out of the car, his nose is bloody. The two officers in the front seats aren't moving (it's unclear if they are dead or just unconscious).
- Arthur shoots Murray twice during a live talk show, blood sprays onto a wall behind the victim; people scream and run.
- A gunman approaches the Wayne family and shoots Thomas and Martha Wayne. Blood is seen briefly. Then he shoots the mother and blood lands on the child.
- Arthur Fleck shoots a talk show host in the face. There is blood spray.
- The violence in this film is mainly offscreen or only blood splatter is seen no actual violence the most violent scene is when arthur stabs randall in the eye and then in throat but that too is seen very little due to editing of the scene.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Arthur learns that his mother suffered from delusions and that she allowed him to be physically abused by her boyfriends. It is mentioned briefly that one time as a child he was found tied to a radiator. Undoubtedly the most emotional scene in the film.
- Arthur suffocates his Mom with a pillow. No blood or gore but a little eerie because you can see and hear her struggling and heart beat racing and then fading away at the end.
- It is a short scene, about 30 second long in wich Arthur pulls out everything out of a refrigerator and proceeds to seat himself in the refrigerator and close the door. This scene could have a small emotional impact, although not too much.
- Throughout the film the main character pints a gun towards himself several times as though he is considering suicide.
- Joker abruptly shoots a man in the head. It is very startling and could be frightening.
