very good movie, but...

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2019)

(The title of the movie is "Joker". You know what this movie is about. This review contains very very minor spoilers, but you most likely know them already, because you read the title of the movie.)
This movie is pretty worshipped at the moment, and a lot of people are saying it is a masterpiece. I am not sure if it is or not, in my opinion it is definitely not a clear yes at least - which means the same as a no at the moment.
So this movie is esssentially a backstory of the Joker. (Duh) And it does this in actually quite a believable, and even "realistic" way.
This movie is quite uncomfortable, the most uncomfortable bits come from finding out details about the main characters private life, how he is as a person. Because people like this kind of exist in real life (but things are dramatized in the movie). And the movie uses this as a way to tell, as i said earlier, a believable Joker backstory.
However, sad to say, as it is a movie with some quite uncomfortable parts, those can also in a way be translated as "boring". I am not saying the movie is boring, it is just that those scenes are basically just designed for Joaquin pheonix to display his acting talent and how he is the character, and how the character is "real". And dont get me wrong, he is great. But these scenes only serves that purpose. But in a sense they are also necessary for the backstory to work, so basically the movie MUST have these of what are essentially "boring" parts. Which is a dilemma, i guess.
The best parts of this movie are easily the parts when you see the TRUE Joker, those glimpses of the comic book villain. And Joaquin pheonix looks..... AWESOME in those scenes. But they are few...
Looking forward to a sequel, or a future movie with Joaquin playing the Joker!!!