A very sad take on the Joker

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2020)

While I disagree with painting mental illness as an excuse for behaviour harmful to others, this take on a popular villain provokes empathy. On a dramatic scale this movie demonstrates how abuse and the failure to recognize and treat psychosis can lead to terribly unhealthy coping strategies. Instead of portraying the Joker as willfully evil, his evil deeds seem to be almost a series of escalating mistakes. It's much easier to vilify someone we can't empathize with.