This movie is beautiful, Joaquin Phoenix Would Make Heath Ledger Proud

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2019)

This movie is beautiful. The message they deliver is immediately felt: it's portraying our society as a whole in the movie. This shows us exactly how some people are treated with disrespect, and being completely isolated as if they're not even a human being.

Not only that, but Joaquin Phoenix's portrayal as Arthur Flex is astounding. You can see the high amount of time, and effort he's put on to being this character. He really hits home in the laughing, shows Arthur's struggles immensely with society in every scene. Phoenix also does an amazing job showing the descent into madness slowly, which just makes you feel even more terrible for the character Arthur Fleck, and what society had done to him. He really might've made Heath Ledger smiling down at him, saying: "you've restored my Joker legacy".

Speaking of the descent into Joker, that was also handled very well. We first start off seeing Arthur as a weak, willed character. He slowly walks up the stairs in a weird, almost saddened way. He has a shaky voice, and almost zero confidence in himself. Arthur was pretty much broken down: a human that society treated as non-existent.

However, when he becomes Joker, we immediately see he's happy as can be, dancing to his own music in his head down the steps as shown in the trailer and the movie. He actually feels more confident, not scared to express himself, albeit in a twisted way of course.
I suggest you give this masterpiece a watch, you won't regret it.