Oh my days

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2020)

I have always just thought The Joker being in his mindset from day 1 of being born, I never thought of him turning into his well known character over a period of time. Joaquin Phoenix really embraced the role of The Joker and delivered a performance that is on par and in some respects surpasses Heath Ledger's version. Let's face it everyone who sees this film is going to be comparing it to Heath Ledger's classic portrayal.
The psyche of The Joker has always been a huge question mark and Joaquin Phoenix does an incredible job in creating a version of how he came to be in the iconic character that we know today. After the scene where he murders the 3 men on the train you seriously see how Arthur Fleck goes from a man who just a nice everyday person who has taken some harsh hits from society to Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime and how he transcends from one to the other. To use another example people often judge a person's performance of The Joker with their laugh as it is one of his iconic traits. It had never crossed my mind that he could have developed this trait from a head injury and therefore at some points it was hard not to feel sorry for him when it happened at a bad time. The pace of which Joaquin Phoenix creates his character change into The Joker was at a slow pace and as the film went on you see him go deeper and deeper into the mindset and it just grips you the more it went on.
In the end Joaquin Phoenix's performance is easily in deserves of an Oscar and as said before in my opinion it is on par with Heath Ledger's performance>