A fascinating travel into insanity..

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2019)

This movie like all masterpieces is hard to class or define.
The slow "Taxi Driver" descent in hell of the most gentle pathetic and lonely human being in this "pre Giuliani" styled Gotham, becomes inversely proportional to his charismatic political influence rising among all its more desperate citizens.
Those both methamorphosis are described in a fluent and magistral way. The birth of Joker's clown masked followers is so credible to remind real revolutions and viral birth of protests of recent years, like Anonimous or European "Gilet Jaunes"..
After an almost perfect movie the lasts TV show scenes instead of being the top climax of a crescendo take away somehow strenght to the movie. This part could maybe have been developed in a better way.
Joaquin Phoenix is undoubtfully unbeatable for those roles and will get an oscar for it.. but Heath Ledger's Joker ghost remains always present there in our memories, absolutely unforgettable...
This movie is a disturbing, sad, violent but thanks to a great Joachin Phoenix, fascinating travel into insanity.