Joker 1
Laijon Liu 20231102
My bruised panda eyes and my big bloody smile
from ear to ear that covers up a disfigured scar
everyone has scars in his face, everyone
some are visible, for cosmetics, or fix?
some are characters of distinguished prestige
I like mine enlarged? Impactful! or just as it is.
so you can't ignore my permanent imperfect perfection
reminds you this most misunderstood simple gesture
disguises many monsters, pretenders, and jesters
and remember: to be, or- to act kind, even in honesty
to smile a little, to smile all the way, to laugh off
Ah, ha, ha, ha, oh Smile oh, but I prefer real emotions:
their faces, the people scurry when the ground shakes
no more prickly smirks, silly grins, and stern merciful smiles
Note:
The Dark Knight's Joker is a great feast for movie fans who want a great acting, some great acting of supporting actor role overtakes the main actor and the whole movie, I think probably the producer or director even surprised when they watching their end product. I am not a comic book or manga fan, it's not my era. too little words and those big emotion cast drawing focus on young people of the comic book raised people. so I did not read comic books, HK and Taiwan comic book pace kept up with West and Japan, not China where I grew up. so those style of narrative and artwork required a lot of paper resource that was impossible for a non developing country to have a comic book publishing and culture trend. there were none before 1990s to the public.
All my superheroes are from the movies, that first showing of Superman in 1980s China was an awestruck experience for all the kids there, I was one of them still feel the sonic air wave shocks when Superman flying into their part of culture atmospheres showing on the big screen. Awesome- finally a correctly usage of the word.
Batman poem is more of mixed of Tang and Sung poetry method, images to construct a moving picture. after I watched the 2022 Batman, I texted to my friend, I was like, "yo! The Batman movie is really great! more humane more vulnerable, more character tension that exerts more strength. so great!" I have a problems, thoughts of voices in my head every time I got excited by an experiences of reading or watching or hearing some great stories, the thoughts kept going on my mind in daytime or night, sleep is always a problem, if I give in those thoughts of images and voices, then I have to get up ten times from my bed to note down those lines, that second day at work would be a struggle, those thoughts keeps coming, so I have a few scratch paper in my pant pocket I just jot down them, and the images and voices would change and edit the previous lines of the night. To someone has an easy job, not to focus on the task, this mental phenomenon would be a blessing, no writer block that everyone wish to have, multiple different personal identity voices. But if someone must hold his job to get by, that could be a problem of big flop on his work and he might end up finding an another job or end up on street like the talents who speak to themselves that we pass by seeing them on the way to our work or home. So I often just ignore those voices and images, I don't put down on paper immediately, I don't entertain them, deeply I know those images and voices lines always there, anything and anytime will be triggered by a similar experiences or just a word or name then they all emerge to the surface in a full force. Batman poem lines were buried down over ten years, become clearer, probably Superman too.
Joker, smile, that term of image is truly how civilized society based on. This gesture actually really builds us, probably we just don't realize it, thru literature or art, Mona Lisa, Sui Dynasty Buddha statues, iconic yellow smiley face to all the films actor and actress faces, to horror films clowns, and everyday peoples faces, co workers, passengers on the train, neighbors, your close friends, intimate partners, parents... many subtle emotions all communicated thru this simple gesture, and we are so natural to distinguish the meaning behind that, even our pets, cats and dogs, they do smile, we know. but they can't hide their intention and feeling from it, they are straight forward like infants purely good no evil dints, only adult human can disguise our smile, we learn as we grow, that smile can draw a line or space btwn two persons in a momentary exchange as an clear signal, the same smile can tell that person wants love now or wants you to go away telling you she has a headache even to a person who never had any kind relationship watching that part of film scene, and that guilty smile of love one who asking for forgiveness saying sorry or just acting, or stupid naive smile of partner offering to mend some past. and actress and actors are experts on this art, then salesmen and politicians, criminals, serial killers, bully who kicked shit out of you years ago then he can act like nothing happened seeing you again, gropers and rapists at close social party, a clown's face sticking out of an ice cream truck window... more scary than scream movie's horror mask. I never get horrified by a horror films, unless some dirty disgusting poop sprayed into a beautiful actress bleeding face or a close shot of actress body parts cut up, yak that's unbearable. but nothing more scary than a simple smile of a killer.
And recent years, as Putin's war happened in Ukraine, Trump won the election and lost second, Xi fumbled China economy thru his egoistic political empire stance, as I looked at their photos taken at their high points, from starting the war, winning the election, taking the chairman seat to sinking in the war swamp, lost the second election, and sacked China into a hopeless economic political disaster, their face emotion totally changed, they looked lost comparing to their overly cocky smile in the past at conferences, and they are not Hollywood A-list actors, they never had acting lesson, they don't have natural acting talents when their plan goes to shits, they can't stay in their characters. their photos showing their emotion suddenly made connection of the Joker's face, the smile characters, and I searched looked at Stalin and Mao's picture portrait posters and photos and found common theme and feeling of it. So I decided to pen down the thoughts of Joker in a 1st person narrative, I usually avoid writing bad thoughts, ignore them as junks, but I think Joker's face and that smile really tells us something how we can construct our society from trust or totally dismantle the social fabric by betraying our simple yet most power gesture. we are like insects in the jungle, all the blissful things blossom in super sizes, the infinite shapes of green leaves and flowers are sizes of houses, but we can be equally all victims and trapped in a splendid wondrous realm of cruelty and exist in the state of death when many individuals do not honor that simple gesture of smile with his honesty and moral principal. Pretty terrifying to think about it. Anti social, anti establishment and violence on innocent children and women justified as rights and honesty or simply A Complex Issue as an answer even from the view of ChatGPT3.5 thru the smile expression not as a bridge and handshake of truce and peace but a veil or a mask as scheme of violence, that triggered my mind of Shakespearean monologue not in his unmatched style but at his depth of seeing the dark part of a beast. I am pretty happy to pen down the thoughts and lines non judging. Since I have some kind of power then I must carry out a part of responsibility that gravitates to who/what we or some of us are, the genuine human expression we either have lost in some culture or betrayed in another, that basic social value is gone.
