Is our soul mate above all our best friend? Starring in “Joker: Folie à deux”, Lady Gaga shakes up preconceived and toxic ideas about the couple.
#Joker2: for Lady Gaga, a spouse must above all be “a best friend”! The antidote to toxic couples?
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Harley Quinn and Joker are the ultimate toxic couple.
For fans of the “Batman” universe, this pair of clowns is synonymous with domestic and psychological violence. This is one of the most “touchy” subjects of DC Comics stamped creation. Surprise: this couple is precisely at the heart of Joker 2or rather Joker: madness for twoa highly anticipated sequel to a colossally successful first opus.
Atypical sequel since it is a musical! And filmmaker Todd Philips makes it the absolute opposite of the previous part, reappropriated over the years by an entire misogynistic sphere of the web community, that of masculinists. A political reality of which Lady Gaga, the new incarnation of the said Harley Quinn, seems aware – until now played in the cinema by the brilliant Margot Robbie.
Because the singer wants to thwart toxic masculinity. And toxic relationships in unison. At People magazine, she explains her relationship secrets. And details why she feels so fulfilled with Michael Polansky, her partner whom she has been dating since 2020. The reason? “I love my fiancé so much! He’s my best friend…and that changes everything!”
The interpreter develops…
What if being friends in your relationship avoided jealousy and possession? Lady Gaga makes this hypothesis
Passing the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, Lady Gaga tells People everything: “My best friend is my partner, and I feel like when you’re with your best friend, everything changes…” .
Being best friends with your boyfriend, THE solution to emancipate yourself from the dictates of the couple? With your guy, or with your girl: a notion that seems healthy for all genders.
Lady Gaga, who has just released a new album, “Harlequin”, a devilishly jazzy opus composed of covers, casually invites us to rethink the notion of couple and male/female relationships: to consider friendship as a complement to love, and an essential concept in life as a couple. What to counter jealousy and the idea of possession?
And why not? More and more stars today seek to reconsider the “principles” of the couple and our vision of love. So Emma Watson said to herself:in a relationship with herself” to remind us that celibacy is also a form of fulfillment. Especially when it is combined with the feminine. Insisting on the mention of “best friend” is also a reminder of the importance of kindness and dialogue in life at two.
Lady Gaga does not approach the subject in a trivial way.
Because the interpreter of Harley Quinn knows that her character raises the question of toxicity. What this very endearing antagonist of the batman expresses is the way society views women who are victims of domestic violence. “Reducing her to a ‘symbol of domestic abuse’ is indicative of how victims are treated [dans la vraie vie] : only as a tragic ‘trope’, rather than as a complex, autonomous individual“, explains American blogger Cameron Glover in this regard.
“These conceptualizations are all the more frustrating when you consider how nuanced Harley Quinn’s character is. Harley is a woman who, like all victims of violence, is more than a stereotype. She’s goofy, teasing, athletic, confident in her sex appeal and highly skilled in all kinds of fights.”
A complexity that fits the interpreter of “Paparazzi” like a glove…
