Wildcard factory?

The Joker movie is a Pandora's box.

The messy house. The stepped-on and wet paper. The city not collecting its trash.

This "design" enters the protagonist's mind.

Associating external mess with internal mess is a phenomenon described in other situations.

"Women Who Run With the Wolves" cites the opposite reasoning: tidy the house, tidy the mind.

Anyone who has gone through a major construction often reports being able to feel the disorganization, the lack of structure, the lack of completion, when for a long time, it "gets into their bones".

So what?

A lot comes from that.

Wouldn't an externally more organized city more efficiently "organize" the inner lives of the people who live their routines there?

The Joker movie portrays the opposite of a beautiful city: it portrays a city typical of the crisis that the USA went through between the 50s and 90s, with fires, garbage, protests, pamphlets stepped on in the rain and, of course, its human internal mirror, the also increasing violence.

The practice called "broken windows" used the theory of the dirty city as an incentive to crime and, using its most immediate antidote, sought to organize the city in the smallest details. Along with other tactics, peace effectively returned - perhaps not by coincidence with external beauty - in the USA between 92 and 99, when violence returned to current levels, and cities became more beautiful than neglected, on average. There are hypotheses that say this is just a coincidence, but there are also several that say that there is cause and effect in this relationship.

Today, films like Blade Runner, Mad Max, Joker, have once again become fiction far from reality. A reality that was not so distant at the time that inspired, not by coincidence, so many works with hopeless endings.

The producers of Joker knew very well how to use the external and the internal as "just one mess".

The film is a lesson, in cinema format, about the influence, or the way of seeing, of the design itself, of the way of disorganizing, externally, with the mind misadjusting in tune with the external misadjustments. So much so that in the Joker film it is the population as a whole, not just the joker, affected by hatred, urging protests.

The dirt comes from the outside in. The garbage, the rain wetting the old clothes, the lack of love. They enter people.

It's a film like a big and long work: to have the stomach to follow closely.

The desire - both in long works and in films like Joker - is to clean everything, arrange everything. "Put everything in order".

It is an urgency that comes from our core: piece by piece, slowly, collect the dirty clothes. To wash. To extend, to dry. Sand the walls. Paint. Disinfect the entire floor, all cabinets. Throw away everything that remains broken beyond repair. Clean, remove all dust. Change the door. The windows. Be loving with the neighbors. Slowly, one by one. Put a clean stove to work. Cook rice with beans and carrots. Let the smell of family invade, gently, the building.

But what about the city?

If an apartment is already huge, what about a city then?

I have this concern about some cities or countries: how many cities or regions still serve more as a setting for a film like Joker, than for admired tourists taking photos of the beauty of their sidewalks, plants and design?

The film reinforces a suspicion that was already very logical for me:

We feed "jokers" when we disorganize.

Even if we don't go to extremes, half a joker can cause great pain.

How can we paint, love, calmly organize, slowly add design, in all, in each, region and city?

We would be feeding "butterflies", instead of "jokers", in every passerby.

Butterflies are very cliché, when I want to refer to the opposite of "jokers", like the joker portrayed in the film.

Call it what you want. It is possible that we encourage more organized, more beautiful, more peaceful minds, from the outside in, if we can have more beautiful, well-cared for regions, with people who are more affectionate than grumpy.

Furthermore, affection and beauty would probably be a virtuous circle, one feeding the other, in a cyclical way.

To move away from very abstract theories, it is possible to leave a purely practical question:

What would the city opposite to "Gotham City" that feeds jokers be like? In detail.