Knock Knock Mr.Phoenix, It's the OSCARS!!!

Rating: 9/10 (11 October 2019)

First of all, you should know this is an outstanding and disturbingly realistic character study by any means

There may be some mild spoilers below

General Information: I am a huge Batman/Joker fan, my favourite comic-book movie ever is "The Dark Knight". I consider J.Phoenix easily one of the top 10 actors of his generation. I was disgusted with DCEU's Joker in "Suicide Squad" and really wanted this Joker to succeed. So yeah I was really hyped about this movie

This movie delivers everything you SHOULD expect. Phoenix is perfect in the role, when you see the movie you don't see him, you see Arthur Fleck. Thanks to his performance, Arthur is very sympathetic, tragic, even likable. Of course he is helped by truly great dialogue (The writers nailed that department). Even though Arthur is definitely mentally disturbed, he more human than any other person in the movie. He is trying his hardest to succeed in life, but every day of his life is even worse than the previous one (and we all know what a truly bad day can cause to even the most saint person). De Niro, Beetz, Conroy and everyone else offer great acting support.
The story though is the one that brings everything together, it's amazing in all honesty. The writers crafted a haunting, realistic, violent and very memorable origin for one of the most iconic characters ever. There are numerous unexpected turns and twists. A lot of the scenes are mesmerizing, among the best in Film History. I doubted T.Phillips was right for directing the film, since until now he was associated with comedy, I couldn't be more wrong, the guy gave everything and it would be no surprise he receiving an Oscar for his work. And finally Thomas Wayne is something more than a dead face in an alley (I admit though that the age difference between Fleck and Bruce is a little irritating).

I applause the writers for leaving a lot of the scenes open for interpretation by the audience

I have to talk separately for Phoenix's laugh (a defying trait for the character). Until now the best laugh for Mr.J belonged to M.Hamil (who a lot of people understandably acknowledge as the best Joker still), but Phoenix in my opinion beats him. Phoenix laugh is insane, disturbing (yeah I know I have used a lot this word in the review, but I can't describe it with any other way), depicts his derived personality perfectly and his inescapable decent to madnes (eventually), while making you feel uncomfortable

Now rightfully you may wonder why I gave it a perfect score. That's it for 2 reasons
1)I didn't like Joker's costume
2)The defying moment between Arthur and his mother in the hospital could have been even better easily
It's tragic if you think about it that (probably) we will never see Phoenix's Joker again, and to make it worse we are stuck with Leto's version...

(For those of you wondering, in my opinion, H.Ledger is still in the top!!!)

Rating: 8.8-8.9/10

GO WATCH IT!!!