A really important film at frightening times

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2019)

Never was there a more pertinent film for a time when society is beginning to fragment and people are becoming disenfranchised from family, core human values and love. Joker is not a 'Batman' type movie of the super hero genre; no, its much more important than that. Joker is not make believe; it's real. It's happening all around us and all over the world. Yet what is happening simultaneously, are the incredible webs of lies and deceit that are spun to delude and keep the truth down.Joachim Phoenix delivers an incredible performance that is central to the film's success. Bet he won't win an Oscar though because the liberal elite will find this film a tad hard to swallow. Liberal feedback is that the film is too violent however the trailers before this film started were 'acceptable' violence of endless garbage gratuitous films for the brain dead. Joker is a symbol of all those people in the world who are not cared for, loved or cherished - firstly by their nearest and dearest and then by society itself. When these people begin to disintegrate, we walk straight past them; be they addicts, homeless, refugees, mentally ill and the suchlike. Social media has only ingrained humanity's ability to isolate and take advantage of people's weaknesses or to downright use people to make money and so the 'super elite' are born. The super elite are the version (rats are everywhere in Gotham) who prey on the filth all around them. As we see Joker begin his downward spiral in to severe mental illness we can only lament that this illness permeates every part of media and politics and drug companies and crime of modern society. Joker leaves one question unanswered - where do we got from here?