Disturbing Portrayal of Mental Illness

Rating: 7/10 (14 November 2019)

Phoenix should rightly get an oscar nomination for his portrayal of the joker.
This film did not have enough 'story' from the fictional world of the joker and batman and villainy in Gotham city.
Instead it focused on a disturbingly realistic and harrowing portrayal of mental illness.
In films we like are badies to be bad, and be evil, and to be fictional. We go to the movies to escape real life.
Instead Phoenix's vivid portrayal of mental illness and the films focusing so heavily on it. Made it too disturbing and horrifically life like to be enjoyable.
Phoenix has showed his amazing talent as an actor the films mistake was in exposing the audience too much too it.