You laughing at me?

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2019)

Unnerving , Strange and deeply depressing. Yet the vision that unfolds in front of your eyes is one that will leave its mark on you in more ways than you'd care to allow for. Whether you like it or not is inconsequential. It's an experience for the ages... it touches ever so subtlety and honestly on one of the biggest issues currently facing modern day society; mental health! Should we or shouldn't we? do we step in? but how can we? He's strange, she's wallowing, they creep me out, ... this is a film as important as it is dangerous because our protagonist finds his voice and value through violence . Did we create the monster? Was it you or was it me? was it the society that breeds the rejected through carelessness approval and reverence of the shallowly beautiful and the selfishly powerful. It's the questions that this masterpiece of filmmaking poses and even dares to raise. The world is fractured and shown through the eyes of Gotham's allegory of the downtrodden and forgotten that litter the streets while the privileged determine "what's best" for them. Only one that can rise from the gutter amongst them all can truly understand ... only he who dares to push back in the most harshest way can deliver the feast that could satiate the starving masses.
Joaquin Phoenix delivers something that has only been seen, in what now seems in small doses when looking back, an all guns blazing performance and dishes up a sad and disturbing character that you can't draw your eyes away from. Peering in as he delves into the depths of despair as though he must have had some sort of experience of hidden trauma in his life that could only be defined as horrific. He deserves every accolade there is under this hot sun that has continually shunned its rays away from such a desolate and pathetic character, a character that has the paradoxical ability to lead through his madness.
I'll say it clear, along with the rest of the wanna be critics in this vast industry of movie appreciation... Joker is a film that has the ability to leave its mark on you for a very long time, it's simply a masterpiece, a timely reminder that the forgotten will be remembered for good or for bad and that minds tampered with can bite back and bite back with a vengeance! Like it or not is inconsequential, watch it you must! To better understand the mind of the person that causes the atrocious crimes we see in the nightly news, whether you like it or not, it drives , it is dangerous, whether the movie makers like it or not It walks the tight rope of contempt and sympathy, even dare I say glorification, it could inspire and become the modern day "Catcher in the rye" its just that powerful. It leaves and impacts whether you like it or not! It doesn't leave you indifferent , it can't. And if it does , you got distracted and the joke is on you as you may be in danger of having forgotten a dangerous mind that may be closer than you'd like to think! Put on a smile on your face and go out and get disturbed... this is why we watch movies!