A study of a man whom society has betrayed.

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2019)

The Joker is not a superhero movie. It is a nihilistic portrayal of a man whom the ever growing, expanding and corrupt world has forgotten. This man feels left out, betrayed and morally ignored.
In a world which, like our own, subjects its peoples to vapid, cheap and emotionless stigma, Arthur Fleck (whom Joaquin Phoenix portrays flawlessly) has no cultural or human belonging. He longs for (as he expresses himself) the pain to stop, and thus for the world to understand him, which it never has. It is a world which seems too preoccupied with pleasing its elite and their needs, instead of understanding what lies at the root of the human and criminal psyche. It brushes its criminals and lower classes off, claiming them to be "clowns", when in fact they are a reaction to the agenda manufactured by this elite to destroy culture, meaning, tradition and values in exchange for cheap thrills which mean nothing.
And of course, this does lead to the utter and total collapse of civilization in the movie. However, at times I kept wondering; is this a movie based on fiction, or is it a movie predicting what is to come?
See this movie. Understand it.