A Great Analysis of the White Supremacist Male's Mind

Rating: 7/10 (12 October 2019)

This movie was way overhyped. I knew nothing was going to happened at movie theaters, yet I was bored and went to go check this movie out since the media said not to. I'm fifty percent sure, it could have been a publicity stunt from the studios to draw more interest in a movie, which was not as violent as Sylvester Stallone's Rambo: Last Blood or the John Wick movies. I don't get white guys'' fascination with murdering psychopaths or the necessity of making a movie about a fictional white guy comic book villain who thinks it's fun to murder people. Yet, they were excited about this movie. I'll admit it was a good story, a good character analysis of the making of a serial killer, and Joaquin Phoenix committed the heck to this role (one of his best performances) and deserves Oscar recognition, but I found nothing extra about it. It represents how the media likes to paint white supremacist males as the victims or in a sympathetic light. Who cares about their victims who names get lost or forgotten in the story, let's make their white supremacist male the victim, the hero, and if the victim is the wrong color or socioeconomic status, let's paint them as the villain responsible for their own demise. Villains, fictional or real, get documentaries or myriads of movies made about them as the media loves to analyze the psyche of these characters almost as if it's a fetish.
There is even one scene which stood out to me about the black female neighbor who he fantasized he had a whole relationship with in his mind, and the audience doesn't realize it wasn't real until she finds him in her apartment unexpected sitting on her sofa. She tells him he's in the wrong apartment and fearfully begs him to leave. The audience is left wondering whether he killed
her or not. I wondered if this scene was an inside joke about what happened last year when a Dallas police officer Amber Guyger killed a black man named Botham Jean in his apartment and said her reason was she was in the wrong apartment and thought it was her own apartment. She was recently sentenced to ten years in prison, but since the star witness another black man named Joshua Brown was murdered in a funny style at his apartment complex too, it's uncertain whether she will serve time.
The scene which stood out the most to me was the one with the fat guy and the midget. This is also one of those rare moments in the twilight of his career do we get to see Robert Deniro actually act instead of phoning in a performance for a paycheck. He was the second best actor in this movie. I didn't get all the horrible dance scenes and tai chi scenes after he murdered someone. Yet, it made it into the trailer. But it was great movie which shows how Gotham made Joker and the Batman and why their fates will always be intertwined until one kills the other. It's a dance which will never end and that's the greatest joke of them all.
So it's a good movie. Go watch it when you have the most energy. I had to drink a coke not to fall asleep and the couple next to me fell asleep and snored very loudly during the second half of the movie. Great analysis of a white supremacist male, great Joker story, great writing, wonderful cast, and great cinematography. So if you're into movies about serial killers and analysis about the minds of psychopaths, you'll enjoy. If you're not into that or Batman, then you are going to ask yourself, "What in the world did I just watch?"