Tour de force

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2019)

First of all: There was always a mystery about, why Thomas Wayne and his wife were shot in a narrow street of Gotham This movie delivers a story behind the scenes of so many Batman movies/comics. It makes sense for a lot of reasons, but in some particular moments in the plot, it feels like they tried too hard to achieve that goal (no worries, no further explanations).
Additonally, it is not a DC popcorn movie. Not at all. I can understand why a lot of people are upset about this movie. It is more a modern film noir, with great sound, setting and a sketch of a character, or let's say a study of mental illness. If you ever left a movie theatre with mixed feelings and you were some kind of excited to felt once in a while that way, this is your kind of thing.
You won't get your usual Joker. You won't get a comic book adapted to cinema. You will get a extraordinary Joaquin Phoenix performance. He carries the movie in so many ways.
Chapeau.