Why So Serious

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2020)

Joker is in truth a great movie, I love how DC have gone from trying to create this really gritty cinematic universe in order to catch up with Marvel Studios, to making their own films.
Besides Thanos (to some extent) Joker is probably the only villlian I've ever routed for. We see how society can break down a man and what it can potentially lead to. The movie takes inspiration from the comic "The Killing Joke" we can see elements from it really jump out on screen.
The story is so well executed, we see Arthur Fleck as a clown trying to make a living, we see how he falls in love (or so he thinks) we see how he kills for the first time and in a way discover himself. We see how people agree with him and appose the corruption that Gotham and society face.
The laughing condition that Arthur has is very good, when you step back and look it from a different view we see that he mostly only laughs when he's uncomfortable and it comes out really high. Whenever Arthur feels like he doesn't fit in his comes out with the high laugh and when he feels comfortable he dances, I find that in a way very interesting.
The score is brilliant, that small theme Joker has is just pure brilliance, it makes you so uncomfortable and it just makes you question what's about to happen.
I especially love the twists and makes you question if anything you saw was actually real.
For people who haven't seen it: "you wouldn't get it"
The cinematography is brilliant, the cinematographer really knows how to make people feel uncomfortable.
I gave this a 5 star, I feel like it's for the most part brilliant. I especially love the scenes that try and tell us this is real but we find out it isn't.