[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

"Agitating the crowd again," Jason commented.

"It's not called inciting the crowd,? It's called... sowing the seeds of another idea." Jack lit a cigarette.

"Don't think I don't know what you're talking to those students, you're teaching them the Martin Luther King way. Martin Luther King was killed for it."

"Batman hopes to evolve peacefully—that is, with relatively few casualties, but it is still a mystery whether the people can endure the evolution for a relatively long time, or will find their own way out. It is better to establish a violent way. The regime,? Presumably this is what Batman wants to see,? Because this is the choice of the people."

Jason glanced at him with distrust: "What about the truth?"

Jack slowly exhaled a smoke ring, and let out a devilish chuckle: "If a coup is really launched, many people will die."

On August 2019, 8, a film was released at the Venice Film Festival, directed by Todd Phillips,? an R-rated film starring Joaquin Phoenix,? "Joker". "Joker" tells the story of a mental patient named Arthur, who gradually went crazy under poverty and social oppression, and finally became Batman's old enemy, the Joker.The film's script, soundtrack, director, photography, editing, etc. all won the 31nd Academy Awards.

But there are many good reviews, and there are often many bad reviews,? The most common bad review Jack has read is, "The description of Arthur's life at the bottom is not grounded at all. The protagonist and his mother live in a two-bedroom house, and they are said to be poor. But you can live in the hospital, afford the medicine, and live without working.”

In fact, in Jack's view, "Joker" did not justify everything about Arthur, he just showed the process of a mental patient gradually going crazy.The movie does describe the oppression of the people at the bottom and the revolt of the poor,? But looking at what Arthur did, he was just venting his backfire,? Not trying to build anything.In the last scene of the movie, Arthur stood on the police car and painted himself a smiling face with blood, surrounded by a group of fanatical and blind crowd, which is enough to show that what Arthur represents is not a revolution, but something else: □□.The same is the anger of the people at the bottom who can't survive against the upper class. Revolution is completely different from communism. □□ is a kind of disorder without order and bottomless chaos, while revolution/revolution seeks a new order by creating chaos. "Joker" did not wash away the clown in the DC worldview, and what Arthur represented was still evil.

It’s no wonder that Chongguo didn’t introduce this movie. It’s not that “Joker” is too provocative, but because of the differences in cultural systems, many people may not be able to distinguish the difference between revolution and revolution. Confusing these two concepts is harmful to the people unfavorable.

However, he can guess the reason why DC was unwilling to make this movie in the first place. The script of "Joker" overdraws Batman's ip to a certain extent. The public's impression of Batman will decline, and his evaluation will become "" Unscrupulous capitalists", which will somewhat reduce the box office appeal of the next Batman movie.And the only valuable thing in DC's hands may be Batman.

Of course, this is Jack's relatively logical guess. In reality, Warner's executives may not have considered these at all, and they just habitually displayed DC's traditional art skills-pull each other's legs and beat themselves.

However, Jack is really looking forward to what kind of fruit will be borne by planting a seed of red thought in Gotham.Batman hopes that Gotham City can become a city of order. He uses the method of peaceful evolution to slowly improve the lives of the people at the bottom of Gotham City. Wayne Enterprises spends more than 30 billion US dollars on charity every year. This method can reduce Many casualties in the conflict.But it is difficult for him to do it alone, and the time is too long. If the people stand up to overthrow the government and establish a new regime and a new order, it may bring hope to Gotham and allow Batman to retire one day.

It's not like being moved by Batman...Jack rubbed his hair, and gave up in his heart, saying: Just be moved if you are moved, there is nothing to be ashamed of.If he doesn't like heroes, why does he love superhero comics? Every reader who reads Batman comics doesn't think, "What if Bruce doesn't need to be Batman anymore".

A thought suddenly flashed into Jack's mind, and his smoking hand paused slightly: Joker and Batman exist side by side, like two sides reflected in a mirror.If Batman disappears, then the Joker will disappear too, right?

All thoughts fell silent, leaving only the smoke rings from his mouth curling up.Jack felt his heart turn into a hard stone, perhaps colder and harder than stone.After what seemed like a long time, a voice sounded empty in his chest, like a hand beating a pumping heart.He closed his eyes, and in the darkness, he saw another self, not the clown, but "Jack".Another Jack.The "Jack" said, "Do you really want the clowns gone?"

I do not know.

Jack thought to himself, answering another self.He thought: how do I know.

"Jack" stopped talking, and Jack only heard empty laughter coming from somewhere.Like a clown.

Jason and Jack didn't talk anymore, and the two quietly walked through Gotham after the curfew, like two birds flying side by side in the air.They bypassed the surveillance cameras and came under the clock tower.

Gotham started raining small fish again. The two of them got wet in their coats on the way to escape. Jack thought about going back to his safe room to change his coats, take a hot bath, and drink a glass of sweet milk. I was a little lost in thought.He walked out of the elevator with Jason and pushed open the door of the dark room. At this moment, a coolness hit his face. He came back to his senses in an instant, and hurriedly lifted his chin, his waist softened like a snake, and avoided the sudden coldness. A stabbing dagger.The other end of the dagger was held in the hand of a boy who looked only seven or eight years old. The boy's height did not reach Jack's waist, and he stabbed it with his hand raised high. It looked a little funny.

"Who?!" Jason quickly grabbed the boy's wrist. Jack was a lunatic, but he couldn't watch Jack's blood splatter on the spot.

Jack dodged the boy's sudden attack, looked at the boy's complexion, and the old god was there: "Your Bat Daddy's son."

"Isn't I Batman's son?"

"Merry debt."

As Jack spoke, he pointed at Batman who came out following Damian. Jason just glanced at him, raised his hands, and continued, "I didn't say anything just now."

Jack had no intention of intervening in the affairs of the Bat family. He looked at Batman and said with a smile that was not a smile: "Batman, this is not a spacious Wayne Manor. If you bring strange and rude children in, it will be very crowded." .”

Commissioner Gordon poked his head out from behind Batman.

Jack sighed with pain all over his face. The place wasn't very big, and there were more and more people. I hope his safe house has a place to accommodate him to sleep.

Batman was silent for a while: "Sorry, I have some hot milk for you."

"Who is a strange and rude kid." Damian interrupted the conversation between Batman and Jack, "Why are you a criminal here?"

"Because this is my home, impolite brat." Jack took off his wet coat and hung it on the hanger. He pushed Damian away, walked past Batman, and patted Batman on the shoulder. "How's the investigation going?"

"I almost have some clues. Someone helped Bane take over the entire Gotham, and there were traces of them when Deathstroke carried out the mission. In fact, it is not difficult to guess, it is Lei Xiaogu and Thalia. This time, the Assassin League is lurking in the shadows, all The purpose is to prevent me from entering Wayne Manor for a short period of time, so that they can enter the Batcave smoothly and take something away. But the plan can't keep up with the changes. Bane turned his back on Wayne after taking over Gotham. The manor is strictly sealed, and any members of the Assassin League are prohibited from entering the manor, I think their purpose has not been achieved—”

Before he finished speaking, Jack felt a fever in his nasal cavity, and thick blood clots slid down and dripped on the ground.

"What's the matter with you?" Batman asked the same question Jason once asked.

Jack wiped off the nosebleed: "It's okay, I got hurt on the way to find Jason. Maybe I need to sleep for a while."

Batman looked him up and down for a while: "Not enough medicine?"

"I can't hide it from you, the greatest detective in the world." Jack didn't expect to be able to hide it for too long. Batman's detective skills are terrifying and his observation ability is superb. He changed the time of taking the medicine from four hours to six hours. I couldn't hide it from the detective's eyes.

"How long can the medicine last?"

"If you use the raw materials to prepare it in the laboratory, it will take about forty days, and for the finished drug, it will take half a month."

Batman pondered for a while, and handed him a cup of hot milk: "It just so happens that Jason is also here, and I'll ask Nightwing to help with the medicine. Before that, you should have a good rest."

Jack hummed, just as he was a little sleepy, and walked past Batman into the bedroom.After drinking the hot milk, he rolled up a blanket and lay down on the bed. He didn't feel sleepy like this before. It seemed that since the inexplicable blood loss and vomiting, he became more tired, impatient and distracted than before. .His poor mental and physical state is easy to see. Director Gordon looked at his leaving back and said to Batman: "What's wrong with him?"

"Coagulopathy, gastrointestinal bleeding, symptoms of chronic liver failure," Batman said.

For two years he had been trying to improve the toxicity of the psychotropic medication Jack was taking, with little progress.The ingredients that can activate Jack's nerve receptors will themselves burden the liver and kidneys, and any attempt will change the chemical properties of the medicine bottle. The drugs for the liver and kidneys could not completely remove the toxins, and it would still slowly accumulate in the body and continue to damage the functions of important organs. Finally, it would affect the spine, causing fibrosis of the spinal cord and making Jack completely lose his hematopoietic function.

According to Batman's calculations back then, even if Jack's personality can survive for a long time under the influence of drugs, the lifespan of this body is probably less than ten years, and in the last few years, he will have to rely on a dialysis machine and live in the ICU to barely survive.Thinking about it this way, Jack can live longer after being locked up in a frozen prison. The contrast between before and after is really funny.

But the reality was even crueler than he expected. In just two years, Jack developed symptoms of liver failure. I'm afraid his body won't be able to last even half of what he's been doing for ten years.

"We must solve Bane within half a month and send Jack to Gotham Central Hospital for treatment." Batman said, "Let's start by taking back Wayne Manor."