Everything I want in a movie

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2019)

This movie has everything I want - good character development, a beautiful look and music that effortlessly propels the story along, genuine emotion that makes it shockingly relatable, and real meaning. Arthur Fleck's backstory gives Joker a sense of humanity that I like seeing in villain characters. He's not just some crazy psychopath, he's an actual person with thoughts and pains. He's real. And that's something that's carried over into the rest of the movie, as well. They made the movie feel like it's something that can actually happen. It's not overdone, it's not artificial, it's not pushed, it's just the story of some guy who felt distressed and unintentionally affected society. He had no out-of-this-world plan, that's actually just absurd if you think about it, to make a story. And the movie didn't have a plan to say anything about society. It's not political. It uses principles that are found in society to tell a good story, but it gives no call to action. And that realness, the raw storytelling, shows what it actually feels like to be someone like Arthur. It's truly artful.