I Felt That, or Emotional Travelling with Fictional Characters – Episode 178
In this episode, Dara talks about the characters we respond to in the art we consume. Having been very stirred by ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’, he stays in the world of movies and finds himself thinking about Jungian archetypes and the shadow self we can see reflected at us from the big screen. Speaking about that film, which has heavily promoted Lady Gaga as the joint draw of the story along with Joaquin Phoenix’s compelling title character, he argues that it is what transpires between the Joker and Brendan Gleeson’s prison officer that really unlocks the film and its grim depiction of human damage.
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