So Brilliant I Can't Stop Talking About It

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2020)

I don't like violent films and I don't like comic books and comic book characters. That being said, I LOVED "Joker"--as a former New Yorker, I loved the "mood" and lighting of this film's "city," the "characters" you will only find in this crazy place, the lifestyle and intensity and madness that doesn't exist anywhere else on the planet and only really exists if you yourself are living somewhat on the edge. It's Bellevue and St. Vincent's and The Pyramid Club and every seedy street corner from "Law and Order SVU" rolled into one. Joaquin Phoenix is SO brilliantly uncomfortable you might check yourself in just to make sure you are still relatively the same person you were before you agreed to see this film.