JOKER always has been America's favorite folk hero . . .

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2019)

. . . not that "Pecos Bill," "Duke Wayne," or "Johnny Appleseed" provide THAT much competition to the USA's top clown. However, with this film biography the always eponymous Warner Bros. warn We Loyal Patriotic Normal Average 99 Per Center Progressive True Blue Union Label Citizens that being a Super Hero is not ALWAYS a bed of cherries. "Arthur Fleck:" endures terrible tortures at the paws of the Corrupt Communist Corporate Fat Cat One Per Center Greed Heads before his Baptism of Fire on the Subway turns him into JOKER, founder of the "Kill the Rich" Movement. With JOKER, Warner warns the Real Life Pachyderm Party's "core supporters" that their "base" has a very narrow window (growing slimmer with each dropping grain of sand) to "Get out of Dodge" while they still can, before the sentiments sweeping Gotham City flood across our own American Homeland. Even though Life might not provide a bowl of roses to JOKER's beta adopters, Warner Bros.' prophetic prognosticators warn the money misers, wealth warehousing wastrels, and conspicuous consumers that they won't be enjoying "their" ill-gotten loot very much longer!