He is the Joker Gotham deserves.

Rating: 9/10 (5 October 2019)

I will start this off by saying this movie is actually pretty good. When a film is surrounded by as much controversy as this one, it really has to be a good enough movie for the controversy and the chaos to be worthy, and it is definitely worth it.
Joker is such a legendary villain that not unlike his nemesis is more than a man, he is a symbol, he is an agent of chaos; this particular interpretation has created chaos on and off-screen as people have fought to boycott it and to defend it depending on their political spectrum, this is what Joker would want.
The film does give us the origins of a man who ends up becoming a Joker, but will he be the one who becomes Batman's nemesis? At the end of the day it does not matter at all if he is or not, as the Joker figure is established as a symbol of pure anarchy, a symbol of a cultural war between the have too much and the have-nots, like Ra's Al Ghul said in another franchise "Create enough hunger, and everyone becomes a criminal." This movie is not the first to establish this concept, the TV series GOTHAM establishes quite well that Joker is not a man but symbol, perhaps as big as Batman as not everyone can believe in good when the world's greatest city is divided by extreme wealth and extreme poverty, it is a time bomb waiting for the right person to detonate it.
Enters Arthur Fleck, one of cinema's most miserable individuals, a man whose life is a continuous hellhole, and who is played masterfully by Joaquin Phoenix. The thespian gives Fleck a humanity that very few villains can afford to acquire, a humanity that is more than an origin story, a story that is a comedy, a story of the man who laughs.
The movie is slow paced, but I think that being truthful it deserves a 9 out of 10.
Joker has been one of my favorite characters for as long as I can remember, and I can gladly welcome Joaquin Phoenix into the pantheon of amazing performances that together create the multiple choices' origin that Joker so desires.