Joker (9.4) (94%) - The hype delivered!!

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2019)

Without a doubt the best movie of 2019, and I'm not done seeing movies ( that's how confident I am ). No movie has ever gone this deep into a characters development then Arthur. From start to finish I was hooked, and unlike other movies that fall short when it comes to endings, Joker thrives!

A believe getting a Joker origin film was heavily needed, and a break from the disappointing DC movies that we have gotten prior. Arthur is a struggling middle aged man, still living with his mom, and pursuing a comedic career. Arthur has a condition where he laughs uncontrollably and can't seem to stop, to the point of being in pain. Not only that, but he always seems to laugh at the worst possible times. Arthur deals with day in and day out, being fired from his job, getting picked on and beat up by higher class Gotham residents, getting made fun of by his idol talk show host, and the breaking point, finding how he was adopted and abused by the one person he thought he could trust the most.

This movie shows the decrease in mental health for our main character, to the point where he eventually snaps. After murdering 3 high class boys, Arthur sees the city recognizing him and idolizing the image of the killer as being a hero, a true hero. He slowly starts to embrace the image of the joker, a masked killer who stands up for the lower parts of the city. After Arthur finds out the truth about his "mom", he takes her life, seeing it as a justified kill to relieve the pain from his previous life. He starts an up roar in Gotham, gaining followers and supporters. Near the end of the movie, he takes the life of his old idol that made fun of him on live tv, and then chaos takes place all around the city, resulting in Bruce Wayne's parents being murdered in the up roar.

The ending of this movie created a lot of fan theory's, as we end with Arthur in an asylum with a psychologist, that he then "kills". I have my own theory as many others do. This movie delivered on so many levels and will remain to be my favorite of the year, and one of my favorite of all time.