The Killing Joke (Non-Animated/Great Edition)

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2019)

Joker one of the greatest, psychotic and the most memorable villains of the comic book world has managed to have his own movie and this time Joaquin Phoenix who will be playing the "Clown Prince of Crime" (and not Jared Leto).
The plot tells the origin of a man named Arthur Fleck who feels disregard by everyone around him, he works as a clown who's waving a sign for store sells and entertaining kids at a children's hospital and he has a passion to become a comedian. The downside is that he lives with his sick mother in an old ratty apartment and he's been beaten up on the streets and because of this, his world slowly crumbs and starts to turn himself towards violent.
When I first heard about this movie being made, I wasn't expecting myself to become all hyped up with joy, simply because I've seen other comic book films that has the antagonist starting in the main role (such as Catwoman, Suicide Squad, and Venom) and if you seen them, than you would know that the antagonist starts as bad at first, then becomes a hero at the end. But when early reviews came in before the film came out, I decided to take my interest on it and to my surprise, I was very pleased.
Joaquin Phoenix gives an amazing performance for a character who is going downhill with his life, it makes me feel the sorrow of him because of how bad his life is treating him and that can be a dangerous thing too because with whatever emotion one person has in life and if that emotion isn't good, then that same person could go crazy because of it. So in a nutshell, not only did I feel sorry for him, but I was also feeling scared of him too. Another new thing about this Joker from previous ones is that he also has PBA (Pseudobulbar affect) which I felt that it was a great idea and interesting thing to see in this movie. The cinematography is also well done too as the movie feels more like a drama than a comic book.
Overall: Some people will either choose to have Joker with or without an origin, me personally I don't mind having both. While I can still buy the whole falling into a pool of Ace Chemical story, I can also still have an origin of how the Joker became crazy and this movie did an amazing job of it. And yes while Alan Moore was the first to tell the Joker's origin in "The Killing Joke", but I felt like the director and the writer was inspired by the novel and manage to create an origin their own while keeping the idea from the novel as well and because of it, Joker is the movie I recommend to anyone who is interested in seeing it.