GOOD MOVIE

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2019)

Todd Philips, (director best known for the saga "Hangover in Las Vegas") seems to want to return to its origins, when his first opera, ("Hated", 1994 work based on the ill-fated outsider GG Allin) dazzled half the world.
After almost 20 years bursting lockers with works of doubtful taste, Todd Philips decided it was time to recover and reinvent the myth once again: Joker.
The basic problem is that after the amazing interpretation and subsequent death of Heath Ledger, the icon was transformed into myth and myths are impossible to "reinvent" unless you have a brilliant script and find an actor insane and magnetic enough to pick up the witness at Ledger: Joaquin Phoenix.
Phoenix has achieved what seemed impossible: to make us forget, for a second, the great Heath Ledger to imbue his own dose of madness ... The most bitter fans of the bat will love the interpretation of Phoenix by the amazing and realistic interpretation of an "entity "plunged into the most absolute devastation, channeler of chaos, anger and evil that happens to our world. His genesis, his smile give us back the cognitive dissonance between the real and the impossible: a set of mirrors that point directly to the viewer as the maker of the king of chaos, and it is in that same Bertoltbrechtian game, where we become partners of the vehement viscerality of an interpretation and drama that implode and give birth to chaos in the form of Joker.
Throughout the history of cinema there have been dazzling interpretations; What Phoenix has achieved will blind us in a breath of heartbreaking darkness without knowing very well whether to laugh or cry.
Work of instant worship.