A welcome tribute to the 1970s filmmaking, with a twist

Rating: 8/10 (14 October 2019)

I like it. It's a serious film for adult audience which does not offend its intelligence. As if made in the 70s, the golden era of intelligent Hollywood filmmaking. The cinematography, the acting and the musical score are all excellent. For me, what makes the film more intriguing is the possibility that it plays a trick on the viewer. It seems to be constructed similarly to Nolan's Inception. In my opinion, almost the entire story is what Arthur F., a mental patient locked in an asylum, is retelling or remembering. Only the last minutes at the asylum we see in "real" time. Thus it's just a story imagined by a crazy person from New York in the early 1980s, who thinks he's Joker in Gotham City.