Another Perfect Movie in 2019!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2019)

Joker was directed by Todd Philips, screenplay by Todd Philips and Scott Silver and Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro and Zazie Beetz.
And it's about a man struggling to find his way in Gotham's fracturedsociety. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night...but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty.
"Joker" centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix.
"Joker" is a completely different comic-book movie, which is not about laughs and big fights and superpowers and stuff, no, Joker is a gritty character study, perfectly shot by Todd Philips -despite the similarities between it and The Kind of the Comedy and Taxi Driver-, beautifully written, visually attractive and gives it more depth, amazing OST and of course, memorable performance by Joaquin Phoenix, and amazing performances by everyone else in fact! We'll get to each point in depth.
Let's start with the cinematography, which is really different for a comic-book movie, even if it's a psychological character study comic-book movie. The whole idea of this movie is new and different for a comic-book movie, but the cinematography is really gorgeous, it captured his emotions in a perfect way, his transformation... everything, Philips did an amazing job capturing all of his emotions, and his mind-disturbing moment, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and all for a good reason, depending on Arthur's feelings! Still the movie has a little similarity to 2 of Philips's previous movies as I mentioned above, but they weren't much of them... With that being said, the movie finds its way to be on its own, despite the similarities, and thanks goes to Philips, that's way it didn't effect my grade at all.
And also, the similarity to The King of the Comedy is so well-placed because De Niro is playing a comedian in this movie too!
Moving to the screenplay - which is so quotable just like Ledger's Joker- which is so flawless, every line was well-placed, convincing, heart-breaking, even sometimes scary of how real it felt while coming out of Phoenix's mouth! It also has a scene of The Joker explaining his perspective of his crimes, as Ledger did in TDK... The whole sequence of The Joker with Murray towards the end was amazing... The whole third act was so so perfect!!!
The plot is so interesting, it also shares some real mental issues, and some serious society problems, and it's also different from the comics, which is good, I don't like copy-paste movies, it losses the element of surprise which is super-important, and gives the movie something more to admire!
The movie's visually dark and catching, sometimes fitting the scenes, and sometimes it even revealed in a great way what he really felt, which gave the movie even more depth!
The score is really good, its presence gave each scene something dark and sad... catchy! There's a scene where The Joker was dancing on the street, there was a song fitting his dancing, but suddenly the score faded into a sad, broken tune, and it shows that he's happy and Joker from the outside and broken from the inside!
Let's move to the last point, which is the performances, everyone did a great job in this movie, everyone owned his role in a way that makes you hard to think about anyone else replacing them! Everyone was amazing but Phoenix, he was astonishing, mesmerizing, fascinating, Oscar worthy performance... I can't describe his with words, he's the only Joker who we can, finally, compare him to the legend Ledger, in fact sometimes, he surpassed him! Some scenes show him laughing so hard but his face was sad, in tears.. you kinda feel the laughter is out of someone else, and then he coughs and clears his throat hardly, it's painful for him to laugh that hard, but he laughs anyway, that's how broken and sad he was... For some that might be disturbing, but that's not a bad thing, we're talking about a mass-murderer, what did you expect? The controversy about this movie being so dark, disturbing and even sometimes depressing is really bothering me, because it's The Joker we're talking about, we know how psychologically crazy he's, and how violent he's, even this movie isn't graphic as we expected it to be, the violence in this movie is kinda mild, but people are still talking about violence in a movie like Joker, and that's weird! Joker is official the most controversial movie of 2019, and I can't wait to see how the rest of the reviews are going to be, because so far, it's pretty good!
I'm gonna give Joker an A+! It's a perfect movie in all meanings!
Just go and watch the movie with no mentality or anything. Thank you, guys as always for reading my reviews, and if you liked this, you can click on my name up above and see all of my reviews.