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    'Joker' ending explained: Director Todd Phillips on fan theories and open questions

    by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times Oct 07, 2019 6 minutes

    When the words "The End" appear onscreen at the conclusion of "Joker," that really is the end.

    Unlike virtually every other modern comic-book movie, the film - which rides into theaters today on a wave of sharply divided reviews, concerns over potential violence and endless think pieces about what it all means - has no post-credits sequence. If you stick around hoping to see a tease of the soon-to-be-rebooted Batman franchise or any other upcoming installment in the DC cinematic universe, you will be sorely disappointed. In every sense, this "Joker" stands alone.

    But that's not to say that everything is neatly wrapped up with a bow by the time the credits roll. As they leave the theater, audiences may be mulling over more than the film's provocative portrait of an alienated loner pushed toward monstrous violence by an uncaring society on the brink of chaos. On a more fundamental level, they may be asking some

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