If the Joker has an origin story, let it be this!

Rating: 10/10 (15 February 2020)

Part of the mystique of the Joker is that his past is a mystery obfuscated by mockery and, like all good jokes, never needs explaining. I was worried that this movie would labour through a turgid dissection of the origin bit rather than add to the Joker legend but I was so wrong - this movie is perfect, so perfect that it even flirts with the hilarious notion that the Joker and Batman are brothers! How I laughed when hope of family was crushed.
The Joker lives on, and all I could think at the end of this masterpiece of a movie was how awful it must be to have to wait so long for Bats to turn up and make Gotham fun!