A fascinating character study

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2019)

Joker is a character study of troubled comedian Arthur Fleck, from his earlier attempts in establishing a career in comedy, to the rise of his inner dark persona.
The bleak tone of the film is set since its very first sequence, using a slowly moving camera at times and hand held one at others, the long shots follow the seemingly uncalculated movements of Joaquin as he portrays one of the most fascinating characters to hit the big screen.
When a movie as massive but mostly as praised as Joker comes out, it is not hard to fall in love with it, but it is easier to hate it on the grounds that it did not meet the high expectations. Joker is not only a reimagination of a loved villain, but also a reinvention of its genre. Breaking the classic storytelling process viewers are used to in comic-based productions. It is funny, chaotic and devastating, and the ideal way to experience would be expecting nothing and getting lost in its sombre universe.