An Intriguing Oddity

Rating: 9/10 (9 May 2020)

Joker is a purposefully strange movie, with full intention to make the viewers potentially uncomfortable. It is one of those movies that makes you squirm with discomfort, not out of disgust or fear, but out of sympathy for the situation. The Joker is portrayed as a mentally ill man with a sad past and an equally sad present. His origin story is more bleak as the story continues and it truly makes you sympathize with him for what he goes through. His walk of life is constantly confused and misconstrued. For that, the movies ability to make you sympathize with someone who we know will eventually be a pure root of evil makes it a great watch. In general, the movie pulls of this idea phenomenally and for that I consider it a great movie to view.