Speechless...

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 2019)

If you get the chance, go ahead and watch this in theaters because that is the way this movie is meant to be seen. A standalone film with a take on the Joker that is not superhuman or invincible, but rather, vulnerable, fragile, what every man must probably look like before becoming a villain. This gave the audience a sequence of events that seamlessly tie together this man's descent into madness. The craziest thing about the movie is that I am sure it would be just as good if it were about a regular guy and not about the joker.
Absolute quality across the board, cinematography, scoring, performances, overall plot was intoxicating to experience. This definitely is my favorite movie of the year... quite possibly the past few years too. Granted it was violent although it wasn't gratuitous... and some people complain that it was, but I am not sure they know what gratuitous means because the kills were psychologically tied to the character or due to provocation.
SPOILERS *********** DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN

The first time the joker kills its because three men are attacking him on a subway for interrupting their harassment of a lady on a subway with his laugh- attack. The second kill is of Arthur's adoptive mother, who before killing her found out that she was dating a man who abused Arthur so severely that it caused his neurological condition that prevents him from stopping random laugh attacks... he resents her extremely for the lies, and the abuse. The third kill happens much later in the film when a character named Randall tries to get Arthur to talk about the gun because cops are questioning him, Arthur is still upset over the fact that this guy cost him his job so he kills him in front a dwarf who he could've killed but doesn't because this particular person did nothing to wrong him. The last kill of the film is the absolutely the most shocking in which he knows Robert De Niro brought him on the show to use and ridicule him in front of the nation on camera for not being funny, and he exposes the truth of the world he experiences daily to the audience and then shortly shoots Robert De Niro's character... gratuitous, not at all... gratuitous is something that is unnecessary, that is not the case at all in this film. I can honestly say this movie was not I was expecting, and I am 100% okay with that.