Masterful, yet worrisome

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2019)

"...Are you having any negative thoughts? all I have... are negative thoughts " that's one of the eeriest lines I've heard in a while.
I've read a lot of critics bash this movie, it's really sad to see critics missing the artistry behind this film. The Script, the directing, the lighting, the acting made such a neat work.
The realism in this movie is what made it work so well. Had it not been so gritty and real, this film would've been a mess. Every single crime done is an actual CRIME. There's no desensitization, It's a gritty crime, and it's disturbing as it should be.
However it gave me and ,from what I read, a lot of people a worrisome feeling that some psychopath watched this movie with us and might get triggered. You leave the theater kind of worried.
Phoenix's performance is too much, and I mean it in a good way. You can almost hear Arthur's thoughts just by looking at him, the disturbance, the narcissism, the anger, the madness, and the "negative thoughts". Truly an Oscar worthy performance.

This film tackles many problems in modern day American society such as gun control, mental illness in social services, the poverty gap. It does it in a good way, but not the best way. At the end of the day the film claims to be a comic book movie.
Which brings me to why I deducted two points from the 10/10. This movie dealt with a character study that could've been any psychopath and it stapled the comic book , influential, criminal mastermind "Joker" on it... there's no way this joker will ever have a decent "evil" plan. This joker is a psychopath that wants retaliation on the world, like all narcissistic psychopaths want.
Somehow I felt this movie would be a good prequel to "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood " (just the ending)

This Joker is no agent of "chaos". And his influence on the masses is unreasonable, but someone is going to say "come on! It's a comic book movie!!" #x22; Or " is it?...is it really a comic book movie ?"
Still great film, go watch it