Immersive!

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2019)

Seldom do you come across a movie that's so immersive. Joker is about oppression and ridicule of a man by an entire system and unapologetically attempts to be a reflection of the world around us. Joaquin's portrayel as a man with a deeply disturbing childhood days and constantly fighting turbulent weather leads to a build up that almost leads you to diagnose the disturbed mind with a magnifying glass. Unending backstabs and an unstable mind's weight lead a marginalised Arthur, aka joker to creep into the centre stage and become a dark symbol of a chaotic revolution. The sequencing of scenes are buttery, natural and episodes, where his condition makes him laugh in despair and agony magically do the job of passing the pain on to you, and to the person next to you as well. What struck me the most is the sincerity with which a comic character was portrayed without the Shakespearean sentences that often come with a character of this stature. Also, subtle moments like Bruce Wayne and the joker crossing paths are imaginations worth a million colours. Super heroes aside, here is a movie that meticulously digs deep to study the rise of a homegrown devil. As the curtain draws on the joker, he almost makes you want to handshake him and wanting to separate the character from his crimes. It's a movie not for everyone, cause some understandably, wouldn't get the joke.