Compelling

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2019)

Todd Phillips movies have all been entertaining, but never provocative and stimulating as this. The story is by far the finest curve that anyone could throw at the legendary joker. Right from the beginning, the movie takes you through spectacular visuals, and Lawrence Sher has done an amazing job. Set in the city of Gotham, the movie revolves around the evolution of the joker we all know. But this time, we are all with the joker and without us knowing we justify his rancor, his eccentricities. Joaquin Pheonix blazes with his impeccable rendering. He lives the man; he lives joker. This is what movie making is all about. A dark gritty movie that creeps into your skin and stays there forever. Joker is funny, darkly funny, like the note in his journal, 'I hope my death will make more cents than my life.' Compelling.