A worthy Oscar

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2020)

It's not a super British movie at all. It's a crime movie with ordinary low-level citizens as the main characters. It's probably the most profound one among all the movies of Marvel DC in recent years. The film creates an excellent atmosphere for Gotham City, with dark and humid roads, garbage filled streets, and a sense of impending violence. Such an environment, coupled with a tragic life experience and a bad day, is enough to force an honest poor man into the abyss, turning a little bit from rational goodness to numbness and madness, and every step of transformation is authentic. Jackun Phoenix's bony appearance is heartbreaking. There is no doubt that the movie's King level performance, "no clown after Heath Ledger" can be taken back.