The Joker is not a person, but a movement, an inspiration

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2019)

A brilliant move to make this movie stand alone, and not a true Joker origin movie. What the movie tells the viewer, is that when society strips away your money, love, medical care and truth, all that's left is madness and despair. And anyone who embraces that, can become the Joker.
Joaquim Phoenix is brilliant as a pathetic and abused person, spit out by everything and everyone, willingly and unwillingly turning into the madman who becomes the inspiration to the many who feel unheared, with the viewer unsure if Phoenix is a villain, or an anti hero we don't deserve but desperately need.
A must see, for those interested in some form of an origin story, but even more for those who need a movie that dares to challenge society as a whole.