The People's Joker

The DC Extended Universe should take notes. This legally challenged DIY parody is, hands down, the most innovative superhero film of the decade.

Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker is a multihyphenate masterpiece.

The best satire splits the difference between affection and contempt, and the debut of Vera Drew, the comedy writer turned DIY dynamo, is no different.

Original, daring, and definitely not for everyone.

Shot over five days, this very indie movie stars writer-director Vera Drew as Joker the Harlequin and borrows liberally from the Batman universe to tell a story of personal discovery.

Savage and sweet – Drew attacks every target from a place of appreciation and experience.

I want to live in a world where movies as passionately personal, as relentlessly creative, as exhilarating in their "deal-with-it" truth-telling — movies like this one — aren’t such rare occasions.

The People's Joker is a true triumph in filmmaking and is unlike any other movie you see this year. It's hilarious, weird, confrontational, and complex, and it will make you think in a way that no superhero movie has before.

A personal project made on a small budget that addresses the author's transition, as well as other social themes through the famous DC Comics antihero. [Full review in Spanish].

The People’s Joker is a weird one to sit through, but it’ll grow on you like a fungus.