Pure, Original, Must-Watch

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2019)

This movie has the perfect blend of dark humor, thrill, suspense, and purity. The entire storyline was constructed so beautifully I could not find myself to be distracted at all during the movie. (Granted I received some negative criticisms from my boss that I was not responding to his emails:)
Joker is a character study on Arthur Fleck, a misjudged outcast in Gotham City who struggles to find his place. Joaquin Phoenix beautifully takes on the role of Joker and portrays the character with the right amount of emotion.
Joker has a lot of symbolism and might be confusing to some people. Director Todd Philips has put in a lot of dream sequences that play out in Arthur's mind and a lot of real-life sequences. This can be hard to discern sometimes. However, this enables us to see into the mind of Arthur Fleck and understand as to why he believes in some things that we may find unsettling.
Hands-down, the best part of the entire movie was the Murray Franklin show scene. Joker delivers an awesome quote which goes like this: "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that treats him like trash? YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!!!!" He then proceeds to shoot Murray in the head, proving that the people who abuse the powers of being rich because of a distinct boundary between the poorer class and the richer class will always fail in the end.
The ending scene was beautiful. When the psychiatrist asks Arthur, "What's so funny?". Arthur replies, "You wouldn't get it". We then cut to Bruce Wayne standing in the dark alley in front of his parents' dead corpses. And then we cut back to Arthur Fleck skipping down the asylum's white hallway leaving behind bloody footprints before being chased down by a security guard. This signifies that Arthur has just murdered the psychiatrist and just doesn't care about life anymore. The final joke is the mirror image that Arthur realizes is between him and Bruce Wayne. Both have now lost their parents and both have now become outcasts in society.