Welcome to the Emancipation of Arthur Fleck

Rating: 10/10 (8 October 2019)

#Joker
Caution: The slow burning schizophrenic emancipation of Arthur Fleck will leave you deeply disturbed, mouth agape in some scenes of pure violence, shocking you to the core.
Arthur's fall into insanity is like quicksand. It will pull you along with Arthur down the rabbit's hole. You could try and walk out of the theatre but I doubt you will be able to move.
For comicbook fans, Arthur Fleck eventually became the Joker, the one man who could not be moved, the one man who saw the evil in everyone. The one man who knew how to push even the White Knights into darkness, while he danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight (!) laughing away in his own terrible pain, his own deep frustrations, his own madness...
This movie is about the final leap he took. The leap into sheer madness. You will become mad along with him. So compelling is this portrayal of the Joker.
You could blame the apathy of a dying society for the final push. You could blame his mother. You could blame his colleagues.
But in the end, Arthur doesn't blame anyone. Not even the demons in his head.
By the end of it all, he learns to dance with them...
You can see him do that dance in the end, without saying a word. His deep mad eyes speak it out as if he's shouting it in your face.
It will shake you up. It will make you cry.
Because you and I, are a part of the Society that drove Arthur to become the Joker...
I have never been so disturbed by a movie. I've seen some of the most horrific movies as part of my quest for understanding cinema.
This movie is a first. It brings tears to my eyes to write this. You will feel sad for Arthur's madness, twist your heart with the pain he felt.
But you will also feel the sheer murderous horror that Arthur becomes. Like an Antichrist rising from the fires of our collective apathy and the death of our tired souls.
P. S. To sit through this movie took all of my love for cinema. I have never been so much in awe, ever.