That's Life!

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2019)

This film is absolutely incredible! Not only is it a chilling representation of society that makes the audience question their place, and if they have been living wrong, but it's portrayal of real life feels uncomfortably accurate throughout the film.
It surprises me that people find it controversial for its portrayal of life. I'm pretty sure just about everyone knows that an anti-hero film that successfully makes the audience empathize with the villain is not excusing their twisted actions. In fact the whole point of the movie is to point out what exactly caused him to turn to violence, and how we can change to avoid that.
My biggest criticism with the film is that I wish the film had just ended with him on top of the car. The scene at the end isn't necessarily needed, it's more of an epilogue. It would have been very powerful if it had cut to black and the credits started rolling with eerie music playing.
Speaking of the scene of him on top of the car, I think that is one of my favorite scenes in all of cinema now. Throughout the entire film, Arthur had been searching for someone to reach out to. Someone who understood him. He killed his own mother, and friend after learning they had been hiding something from him. And the relationship with his neighbor ended up being in his head the whole time. Even his Television Idle Murray only wanted to poke fun at him. But by the end of the film, he has found a group of people who appriciate him for his twisted acts, and for the first time, he actually feels happy, because he is with people who understand him. Obviously it is for very messed up things he did, and this in no way excuses him from killing many people, but that feeling of belonging is what the film reached for, and succeeded at. This will probably be my Movie of the Year and I hope it wins best picture or at least Joaquin Phoenix wins best actor.