Fine Wine!

Rating: 9/10 (6 October 2019)

Movie Review : Joker
Can you have one sip of a fine wine and ascertain all the notes and flavours?
Maybe, you can, but won't you like to taste it another time to really know what's going on with the flavours and get a better understanding of what's underneath?
Joker is one such fine wine. One of the finest I must say. You'll need to watch it over and over and discover a new layer every other time.
My only criticism would be that often the movie self indulges in it's own narrative to an extent that it feels like you're watching a documentary, and that would be it.
Joaquin Phoenix is mesmerizing and terrorizing at the same time. He's literally in every frame of the movie and even his aesthetics are demonic (nothing less than that). The way he portrays his pain with uncontrollable laughter (medical condition) can make you shed some tears and even sympathize with him. A lot many critics are bashing about this part but I think a movie is not a place to get moral education or a place to learn ethics.
Todd Phillips, the director, has engraved his name amongst the greatest with this one and same goes for screenplay, choreography and the haunting background score.
Joker will make you uncomfortable and that's what it's meant to do. I can already imagine Phoenix standing on the stage to receive his academy award which he didn't get for Gladiator and Her.
Watch it if you love cinema as an art form. This one is not going to give you a very happy time. It's not meant to be.
Rating : 9.5/10