Twisted

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2019)

This absolutely blew me away! I LOVED this movie! Joaquin Phoenix absolutely nailed his role as Arthur Fleck. That laugh though! I think Phoenix did a really good job with playing the broken man, who is being disregarded and bullied by society. Some people are skeptical around the fact that the movie is "asking us to side with a psychopathic murderer." I don't look at it that way. I say that the movie doesn't necessarily make us sympathize with him, I just look at it as telling his story. Now, sure, the first two acts of the movie seem to make us feel bad for Arthur, the man whose weird laugh and personality make everyone either turn away from him or be rude to him. But that is the only way the movie can actually even work. If the first two acts are showing us his horrible life, and we don't even care, then nothing about this would work and everyone would hate the Joker. But Todd Phillips and Scott Silver did a fantastic job at telling his story. I feel like the ending could've been altered. It probably could've ended with him looking at everyone while standing on that car, or even when he said, "You probably wouldn't get it" to that lady in the hospital. Overall, this film was a twisted look behind one of the greatest comic book villains!