A Portrayal of Real-life Insanity

Rating: 8/10 (29 November 2019)

Finally a movie about the Joker done right.
And by that I mean, the Joker is done right; including his entire change into the unpredictable psychopath we know from the various comics, cartoons, movies, series, and spin-offs in the DC universe.
Joaquin Phoenix portrays actual real-life insanity. Something I have personally witnessed in my line of work; in at least three certified cases of truly criminally insane people. The kind of insanity which is completely unpredictable, other than the fact that whatever the person is going to do, is guaranteed to make absolutely zero sense to a sane person, but makes one hundred percent complete sense to them.
Joaquin Phoenix played his role so well, that this movie actually scared me a little. Especially since I recognized actual symptoms and behaviorism's of known, real psychopaths.
I remember a quote from a movie, by Batman himself: "...the Joker is insane."
And it was delivered by a very good voice actor, very convincingly.
I bet that the person who wrote that line in the script probably had no idea, that this insanity would be so accurately portrayed in a live-action film.