How Joker becomes Joker

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2019)

Joker. We all know who that character is even for the one who is a complete stranger to the Batman Universe. A psychopathic clown who takes everything as a comedy spreading evil and death as a wave of joke.
This movie tells us the story of how a man who thought he was made to make people around him happy becomes the mean, evil murderer we all know. The story of a man whose life has been nothing but pain, loneliness and bullying. A man who got so sickened by what's going on around him, the evilness and cruelty of this world who takes him as a fool, he snaps and decides to take his revenge on it. This is the story of how Joker becomes Joker.
Joaquin Phoenix is amazing in this role of a broken man who was already dead inside and chose to not care anymore. He is often very touching in his performance when he takes care of his sick mom or when he tries to figure out what makes him so different from the people around him. He made me feel a lot of sympathy for the character who I always considered as a heartless psychopath. I wept for him each time he was beaten up by cruel people and for the first time, he made me despise Thomas Wayne who until this movie has been pictured as a man caring for the people of Gotham.
In this movie, he is the evil man, the selfish bully who considers the people on the fringe of society as a bunch of peasants and losers who are a burden to the city. That can be shocking but it's also refreshing.
In fact this story shines a different light on why Joker becomes such an evil and merciless murderer. For him, he's not the one who is evil, it's the world around him and to take down that monster, he has to become a monster himself. He has to be that ruthless mean murderer to survive. Only for this, this movie should be praised and watched.
I didn't realize this when I first reviewed this movie but a week after watching it and think it through with a cool head, I understand now. There are some scenes I don't understand yet especially the very last scene which still makes me feel like all of this was just a script running in his head. Maybe one day I will understand what it really means.
Anyway that's a great movie and it deserves its high rating. I wouldn't be surprised if it reaps a lot of awards at the end of the year especially Joaquin Phoenix who is mesmerizing in this movie.