Painfully brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2019)

It's been two years or more so since a recent movie made me feel that wow factor and I was craving for a performance to amaze me.
Joaquin Phoenix is one of the beat actors today but still it seemed it was hard to compete with Heath Ledger's Joker, well this movie is not a competition at all since they feel like completely two different characters but to me this is one of the best performances I've ever seen on a "commercially" movie... I'm not expert on comics but I do love good performances and movies, specially deep ones, Phoenix's Joker is a beautiful psychological study on mental disorder, the movie is really intense and there is not a moment that you feel reminded of past Batman movies or Jokers nor do you ever wish for action to start, you just seat watching this really dark story and taking it all in, few movies give that kind of darkness that you can just feel it, Joaquin's performance really blew me away, it's really painfully brilliant.