Too stunned, too disturbed, too excited, too moved, too overwhelmed, in every good way possible.

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2019)

On the contrary to some critics' concern that this movie promotes meaningless violence, Joker does not glorify violence; it instead beautifies insanity with bittersweet and painful sufferings all attached to it, overwhelming the audience with unresolved feelings they never knew existed inside their past dreams, disappointments, aspirations, despair, hope and hurt. Don't be mistaken: Joker does not sugarcoat it or even set aside pains that come from years of abandonment, abuse, mental illness, severe depressions and disorders, and most painfully, the exhausting cycle of daily life after another. Instead, it takes it all in, put into beautifully stark, if not disturbing, images, with captivating soundtrack and music that chills your back even hearing it again long after the movie has ended, like a dark whisper, a reminder that the line between tragedy and comedy is not a line at all-because life is both, never less. Joker does not justify violence, but it attempts to get the audience to see a man's transformation from already troublesome life into the end any shred of sanity he has maintained.