This decade's masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (6 November 2019)

If there are cinematic masterpieces, this is the one! This isn't a mere villain's film. It's an alegory about today's society. Joaquin Phoenix masters the transformation inside a man's mind whose life has been delapidated. The whole soundtrack together with the direction convey these inner dark moments. The stairs, which Arthur finds so hard to climb near the beginning of the film, turn into a stage of his own glorious madness by the end of the film. Don't we all feel a bit of compassion and even empathy for a man who has been nothing but humiliated by the powerful and the rich? Isn't there a bit of the "Arthur" inside each and everyone of us? What will happen when we rise up to our comedy? Isn't this happening already?