A very special movie(spoiler warning)

Rating: 9/10 (15 October 2019)

You will either love this movie or hate it, depends how you approach it and what you expect.
If you are coming to see a movie WITH the joker in it you won't get what you want.
This movie is a movie about the joker and it is very character centric.
It also has a very special take on how a bad guy becomes a bad guy.
The movie doesn't show how Arthur fleck descended to insanity, but rather how he as an insane person changes from a fairly harmless pensive person, to a chaotic murderous psychopath.
The movie doesn't make you sympathize with him and it doesn't justify the joker in anyway quite the opposite- the movie ends with you truly understanding the wicked drivers behind what he does.
The movie makes sense of the jokers actions while still keeping the audience aware of the evil and cruelty in what joker does.
I think this movie shows a unique perspective on Insanity not showing it as a fluid personality trait but as a definite existing issue that has repercussions on the person and how he thinks.
In the end, if you approach the movie with the right mindset(a character study as opposed to a story), I think you will very much enjoy it.