Refreshing

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2019)

If the controversy and mixed reviews should prove anything, it demonstrates how good of a movie this is. Yes, there were a few negative reveiws criticizing the movie for being drab and pointless, but those reviews are drab and pointless.(as Harvey Danger says, "if your bored then your boring")
My favorite part of the Joker is how debatable the whole movie is. There are points in the movie where your eyes water for parts that seem base level humorous. Then there are points where you laugh on parts that are ruthless,dark, and sad. Feelings mix around the theater. From crowds of people laughing compared to crowd silence. You as an idviduall switch between the former and the latter.
Not to mention how fresh the movie feels in general. I can not tell you how sick I am of the archetypes of superheros and villains. Regardless of the movie there is always a thin veil of fantasy. You get this even with movies about supervillians like Suicide Squad. Joker shows the fall into madness of an abused human being. Something not only realistic but frighteningly relatable.
With the debatable nature of the movie Joaquin Phoenix delivers the part fantastically. Everything down to his run is done with character. Never before have I sympathized with a supervillian from a comic book more than I have with Joaquin Phoenix's portrayal. You are with him the whole movie and you feel the pain and sadness that comes with his life. I am sorry Mr. Ledger but this might be my favirote Joker. A performance that is dark,raw,sad, and most of all debatable.