Still a bit conflicted

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2019)

I absolutely loved Heath ledger's Joker in the Dark knight movie. I was fine with the concept of a psychopath doing crazy stuff because his focus was on the object of his obsession, Batman. But Joker however, disturbed me a little. The reason being that the movie is trying to justify glorifying the character. The movie and the evolution of Joker from a mild mannered Arthur Fleck combined with the incredible acting was simply amazing.
I was certainly able to identify with some aspects of the movie and see how closely our current society resembles Gotham in the movie. For example, people being rude when Arthur was being respectful and people being dismissive because of his awkward and weird behavior. I was especially angry when bullies take advantage of his mild mannered personality on a regular basis. However, that is where my issues with the movie begin.
I am more than ok when a person retaliates and fights bullies. But, I am not ok when some personal incidents are used as a valid reason to start attacking the society in general. Yes, society can be bad and cruel at times, but it does not justify killing everybody that fall into similar categories based on societal definitions. I am not ok with categorizing all rich people as bad and all poor people as the ones being taken advantage of. Because it can be translated to any situation we want and can be used as justification for racism, sexism, nationalism and literally any other scenario we want. It is like saying just because a couple of rabid dogs bit me, I will now categorize all dogs as rabid. I can appreciate the acting and the movie itself but I can't appreciate the concept.