Complex nuanced throughly despicable manipulative piece of garbage tremendously well acted

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2019)

This film is loathsome vile trash that betrays every possibility of powerful storytelling or message it comes in contact with. The Joker is a villain, a personification of evil. That is Not a character to use to explore how society treats the mentally ill socially unable or persecuted. This movie will give rise to hate and fear of the ill and powerless and make heroes of tragic unfortunate people who do monstrous things. Had Arthur retreated into the Joker as a fictional character he then took on, this movie might actually be saying something real. If there had been any moment of true choice between good and evil for a oppressed person to choose to become a violent oppressor of the innocent as well as guilty then That would have been saying something real. Instead the writer and director of the film puts his own Joker fantasy up there murdering both the archetypal myth power and the examination of social ills he is juggling around in an attempt to get fame and attention. And like for Arthur it will work. Sort of. For awhile. But we the audience and society at large are left with Penny and Sophie and the copycat clowns fates. I'm not really sure which is the worst end of that deal.