"A Child Who is not Embraced by the Village will Burn it Down to Feel its Warmth."

Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2019)

Cold, hard and sharp; The film does absolute justice to Ledger's performance. Joker is a film that does not confine itself to the normal comic book genre. It is a character study, giving us an insight to how Arthur turns into the iconic villain Joker that we all love to hate. It takes us to back to 1980s Gotham City which is shown struggling due to massive segregation, crimes and disparity of wealth. With the unfortunate parts of society already on edge, it could just take one little spark to cause a big boom.
Joker makes the viewer some what sympathetic towards the character. And also forces the viewers to think what role do we play in creating such monsters. Joaquin Phoenix carries the whole movie on his shoulders and delivers, which many are calling, an Oscar worthy performance. His performance may send chills down spines for some viewers.
Bottom line is that this is exactly how such a complex character should have been handled and is the perfect origin story that Joker deserved.