He takes care of his mother, Penny Fleck, and as he learns more about his ... in turn showing how his alter ego, "Joker," came to be.

Joker is a dark examination of a man suffering and a city that is ignoring him. The way Arthur Fleck turns into the Joker and ...

This is around the same setting as two Martin Scorsese movies that heavily influenced "Joker": 1976's "Taxi Driver" and 1983's "The King of Comedy." During the scene where Arthur Fleck speaks with ...