Great back story

Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2019)

Joaquin Phoenix is with out doubt at the height of what he does. Like Daniel Day Lewis or Johnny Depp, he can play five different roles and you could be fooled into thinking it was five different actors, such is their talent. Why De Niro and Pacino are at the top of the acting pyramid, for playing themselves for the last forty years is beyond me. That aside, Joker is a brave concept in film making, in filling in the back story behind the Joker. One feels who is, an essentially good guy, who falls between the cracks of a nonchalant, under funded system and that perhaps that we reap is what we sow. The greatest service this film provides, given it's takings, is that there is a strong appetite for thoughtful films that don't necessarily have a beginning, middle and end, all nicely wrapped up within 128 minutes with A MacFeelgood factor at the end