Joker - The Movie

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2020)

Joaquin Phoenix as Joker and Todd Phillips as its writer director and producer was not that much convincing for me at first when it was announced. No questions to the Phoenix as an actor but it's the role of Joker bloody Joker which was not a Joke and Todd Phillips the director of Hangover franchise also raised questions as DC is dark and could he pull that off?
Despite of all reservations I would give it to WB's that all the hype they created after the first trailer but still it's about Joker and honestly everyone had their reservations despite of all the hype and a good trailer.
The moment I saw the first scene of the movie where phoenix is doing his makeup of Joker with deliberately making that iconic extended smile with his bare hands on his face, A closeup face shot where suddenly tears started to fall, it took me somewhere else and yes it was just the first scene.
The story shows the late 70's condition of Gotham city where there was economic unrest, income disparity nothing but anger and depression among the general people against the High-class rich people.
The story roams around the Arthur Fleck aka Joker a mentally depressed having pre medical condition and somehow being bullied by everyone he met. The story gets darker and darker as Fleck experiences new traumas each and every day making him nothing but a bizarre cold-blooded maniac we know as "Joker" in the end.
Film's direction, tight screenplay, background score and cinematography everything was touching the right notes and was so perfect that it would indulge you so into it and will take your brain and heart in to another universe which is Dark literally Dark.
Despite of everything being perfect i.e. direction, screenplay, background score, cinematography etc. the movie still belongs to Phoenix, he has over shadowed every single aspect of the movie through his effortless and convincing acting. 2 hours 2 mins movie has Phoenix in almost each and every frame and my GOD what he has done is absolutely phenomenal, he has portrayed Arthur Fleck so effortlessly that at some point I started empathizing with the character, the innocence, the simplicity the facial expressions, the physique all will make you connect and fall in love with Arthur.
Phoenix has outclassed each and everything with perfection whether it's bizarre and nervous Laugh, the unique dancing which he is fond of, the diary where he writes whatever he feels and carries with him everywhere he goes. Scenes with the legend Robert De Niro are my personal favorites, first scene where Arthur imagined himself in the late-night show where he interacts with his icon Murray Franklin played by De Niro and the dialogues between them with Arthur being completely honest and innocent was nothing but love and the scene just before climax where Arthur has done taking it and has evolved as The "JOKER" actually went to the Murray Franklin's show and confess everything, heated dialogues between Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) and Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) will get into your nerves.