I’ve never been fan of the comics nor lover of the super heroes; I believe that just like on any other story there’s a dual approach where you are presented both the heroe and the villain; of course, most people are in favour of the heroes because they are the saviors of humanity and we feel a special attraction disguised with rejectment towards the villains who destroy it. 

The Joker movie is now showing in movie theatres around the world, when I saw the advertisment about the movie, it caught my attention because I had never seen a film dedicated to a villain, so I decided to watch it; the result left me impressed because I believe that the movie talks about issues that need to be of collective concern. 

To begin with, the movie impressed me about the power the human psyche has; what’s the human psyche? It’s the space that joins our unconscious and conscious processes; and it’s conditioned by the programmed memories of the existential limitations of our parents and by a society that prepared us to fit in well; our psyche stores an information that doesn’t contribute and ends up conditioning us in our adult life so we can adapt to groups of people where we’ll resonate and fit in constructive or destructive ways. 

“I’m not what happened to me, I’m what I chose to be.”

Carl G. Jung.

When I sit down and start writing, my intention is to talk to you from my experience and share with you the situations I’ve experienced; nonetheless, I do this writing from my worry about the complexity of a system that refuses to see us wake up from the illusion. 

This movie confirmed to me that the biggest damage society has is the victimization we choose to observe our story with, because there’s nothing more dangerous than the interpretations of our psyche ‘cause it’s through those interpretations that we confuse the real world and turn it into a symbolic one, but what does this mean? What’s happening outside of you is nothing more than the illusion your beliefs are telling you, based on the idea that the root of all your illnesses are the others, because your mind is interpreting what it thinks is living but not what it really is.

Our psyche is conditioned by the tragic moments under which it was programmed with, this make us create scenarios to connect with what we believe is love and empathy; if you’ve already watched the movie, you’ll remember that there’s a scene where the Joker is in the elevator and a neighbor enters and both briefly interact with each other, his neighbor makes a sign that refers to suicide and in that moment the Joker’s psyche interprets the act as an empathic one, because symbolically he relates love with personal abuse, knowing that the highest point of self-hatred, is to commit suicide; although the Joker’s character doesn’t dare to attempt against his own life, he projects it in the others and in that way he feels complete; it’s worth to mention that according to The World Health Organization close to 800,000 people commit suicide every year in several countries of the world; therefore, those numbers correspond to the abuse of a collective psyche. 

One of the situations that impressed me the most of this movie, is that he as many other people, conditioned himself through his hurtful story and that took him to transform his misery into an incestuous relationship with his mother for the deep love-hate he felt towards her and in the end, took him to kill the woman to whom he unconsciously perceived as his secret lover; have in mind that our unconscious will look for a couple who looks the same as our mother or father so in that way, our psyche feels in the same home from where it doesn’t want to be detached. 

I’m doing this writing as a wake up call for the parents who keep resisting to the conscious awakening, I understand that every family has a story; nonetheless, that’s not a justification to use it against a human being that’ll have to adapt into the society and do something for it; it worries me that the parents give a conditioning love to their children through their absence or overprotection believing that’s the best for them when both dualities, are equally violent; because there’s no child who has stopped loving his/her parents eventhough s/he has been physically, emotionally, and psychologically abused, because those children will prefer to hate themselves first as long as they belong to the same dysfuctional nest because what’s true is that a childhood without love, will be a shattered adulthood. 

I’m worry that the school systems keep continue with the same education standards, where’s more important to learn the history of a country where there was and still has tragedies instead of teaching the students how to manage their emotions, thus, guide them to love themselves because memorize the name of a “patriot hero” it’s not as important as being able to wisely use our personal power because self-love is and it’ll be the fundamental key for life; it’s necessary that the educational systems start to teach the impact that decisions have in life so we can eradicate the victims roles, because it’s a fact that are the victims who become into potential agressors; I really hope there may be educational initiatives where it can be taught the importance of forgiveness and integration as an option of life so in that way, help the new generations to forgive themselves for not fitting in the social demandings. 

It concerns me that the society is still trapped among what it believes is good and wrong, because this resistance makes us act from the consciousness of separation that enslaves us to live in duality, that dissociates us from the general sense of empathy and to be abruptly separated from each other is extremely dangerous because without we even notice it we’re turning into inactive sociopaths, believing that with a false smile we can cheat the person we interpret as our enemy while we plan how we can tear him/her apart. 

For me, this movie is a demostration of the non-existent reflection of compassionated empathy, because we have been taught that before taking responsability of what we think, do, feel and create, we should prefer putting labels to the damage we live and give interpretations to it such as: “mental illness”, terrorism”, “madness”, “sickness” etc., in order to not become aware that everything we decide to be in this moment, adds to a society that’s far away to be healthy. 

I find amazing that we human beings have the potential to project our future and return to our past through a personal and collective story reunited as a memory; nothing justifies your parents if they only knew how to give you a violent childhood, but neither it’s justifiable that you protect yourself behind the interpretations you give about how your life was supposed to be and use your personal story to act against or in favour of the world; remember that your decisions are important and fundamental because they have the power to free or enslave you, but if you are guiding your freedom to project your emotional lackings on the others, then, you’re far away from being free, ‘cause you’re the result of a system that doesn’t want to see you aware because it knows that if you wake up in the  benefit of others, you won’t need more weapons to destroy, because you’ll realize that you were already prepared to transform the world.

With love and service, Shary ChavLó ∞