The timing of the movie's release connects to the Boston Bomber's death penalty reinstatement. Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev was branded by the media as "The Joker."
This movie opens with a subway shooting. This is where it begins to mirror the shooter Frank James, who is known online by an alter-ego of "The Prophet of Doom", which mirrors The Riddler. Moreover, the Riddler is a flagrantly "Qanon" type cryptic, shadowy figure at war with corruption in high places.
And as you can see here, the Riddler kills the mayor and rants about it on a video he releases to the public. Frank James similarly ranted about Mayor Eric Adams, who cheered "We got him!" when they caught the shooter.
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