The basic message of the movie seems to have escaped many

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2019)

An extremely important message of the movie highlights the importance of kindness and listening to others.
This basic message seems to have escaped a lot of people who otherwise seem to be into the movie just for the "kewl" factor. Some even seem to have ironically twisted the meaning into some kind of anti-left sentiment and bashing critics. Smarter people know better.
I guess good people will take a good message from the movie and bad people, well, bad.
I personally thoroughly enjoyed the movie and Joaquin Phoenix's acting was awesome. There's more to the movie than violence. It touches on important issues such as kindness, poverty, mental illness, injustice etc.