The laugh suffered

Rating: 9/10 (7 October 2019)

"Joker" has been causing controversy and boycotts because of its glorification of violence, but the truth is that there is no glorification, not even a pretentious movie or danger as many say, is a movie of acts and consequences, with a character building excellent and exceptional direction, not to mention Joaquim's magical acting, "Joker" overcomes any distrust of his artistic factor, is a feature that uses the magic of cinema to tell a powerful and poetic story. Joker's screenplay was conceived by todd Phillips, a filmmaker who has an all-comedy career, and this makes Toddy get a better sense of his character building, of course, the director has a lot of inspiration from movies like "Taxi Driver". "," The king of comedy "," The worker "and even" Indomitable bull "large majority directed by Scorsese-Who came to participate in the production of the film- and starring de de Niro, which is in the film, ie the young director is coming advised. Despite having a whole cinematic study of what he wanted to do, "Joker" doesn't have a perfect script, but comes close to that, his character building is deep and slow, and starts from breaks, we are introduced to a troubled character. and anguish and we have a first act focused on increasing those anguish and problems, then we have the absorption of a kind of social disorder so, in a short third act, the joker is born, it is an impeccable construction that plays between fantasy and reality. , this thin line causes a haze in the viewer's vision that begins to get confused about the social chaos and mood of the protagonist, from this point of view we understand a little Joker, a character broken by the society that accumulates sorrows, his momentum not angry, he's a refuge, he sees his sociopath as something funny, a morbid, subtle and deep transfer of feelings that helps build an atmosfer that of madness and insanity in a grand way, one of the best character builds I've ever seen. We have a critique of governmental abandonment and inefficiency supporting the sick and containing social chaos, the failure of public agencies creates a city prone to violence and chaos making Joker's anguish more easily breed, parental abandonment, lack of figure The paternal feeling that is strongly felt by the character helps him to become unsupported and loose in this sick immersion that all bases, whether family or social, are inefficient in containing his sickening momentum, is a critique of us and the system we have created. Todd Phillips gives a directing show, we knew the filmmaker had some technical talent, for good or bad, the "If you don't marry drink" trilogy is very well directed, but here he goes further and completely changes his driving style, his camera is subjective and there is a total mix of styles, sometimes we have a wonderful curious handheld camera that is peeking at the protagonist's metamorphosis, sometimes the cemera is fixed and seeks more ambiguous and open angles, the camera looks sideways, approaches, It moves away, it is a camera that causes a total immersion to the viewer, several are the strange filming we usually see in the cinema, capturing different points and angles of our protagonist, it is as if the camera was afraid of Joker, always contained and little focal, the photograph is impeccable, much like "Taxi Driver" we have a greenish, melancholy and dirty photograph, it is a depressing photograph that composes and of life the social anguish of Joker, the Other points are great too, such as the costume and makeup, and of course, we have a magnificent, theatrical, high and high soundtrack that permeates the whole feature, a track that looks like a horror movie, but works great here. Todd Phillips puts Joaquim Phoenix with his hand at the Oscars, at least with a guaranteed nomination, Joaquim does more than just staging, he understands his character, lives him and expresses his anguish and frustrations with frightening liveliness, it's a character delivery impressive, the actor lives his character more than just facially and psychologically, his whole body is shaped Joker's agony, his decomposing physical state, his anomalies, his weight in walking, his difficulty in raising his head, we have a delivery and a bodily and physical act too, it's a complete plunge into the heart of the joker, the actor laughs in a scary way, more so than he laughs, and we feel he's crying, his characterization is great too, unless something extraordinary later this year, Joaquim Phoenix performs impeccably and one of the best performances of recent years. De Niro is also great, it is wonderful to see such an important and remarkable actor for the cinema coming back to perform so well. "Joker" was very hypado, this is always detrimental in a movie, but he can meet expectations by creating a reread of movie classics adapted and conjectured into a pop culture character, an immersion in violence, insanity and hurt, a challenge to social isolation and hatred that we cultivate in the society of this always, all aligned to a great acting and direction, the film is not perfect, telegraphs some scenes and at one point underestimates the intelligence of the viewer, but it gets lost in its ocean of merits, "Joker" is not a hero movie nor is it for any audience, it is a heavy drama about melancholy and insanity. (Spoilers) = It's hard to say a few things about the movie without giving up events, for example its final dubiousness, where it remains open whether the Joker killed his psychologist, going out of his way and actually turning you into a psychopath or not, and leaving the character alive for a possible future continuation, other details are magnificent too, the dirty construction of the city where at certain times we defied the fact and we question if the city is rotten or we are seeing through the eyes of Arthur, where everything is dirty, The "little dance" that Joaquim plays after the first murders is also spectacular, it is a moment where Arthur finds his peace and slowly begins his transfiguration. Another interesting point, which already talks with the film's dark humor, is a joke, perhaps the most profound of the film, which is not spoken by the joker but by the director when he scales De Niro for his film, director Todd Philips is very much mirrored. in several films, some of them are "Taxi Driver", "The Comedy King" and "Raging Bull" all starring De Niro, where he plays a broken character who finds an escape in violence, Todd brings the niro to his feature and kills him through a character who suffers from the same ills, aside from being a sadistic joke, we can interpret it as an allegory, where violence finally returned to De Niro, another interesting point, is that all these films are directed by Scorsese, who was part of the production of the film.