Why JOKER missed the OSCARS. It's not a story , its a situation.

Rating: 6/10 (5 April 2020)

People always go after the hype a movie generates and all the big studios can do it very easily. I will only talk about its structure. Because that is where I can see a movie criticially. Being involved in action packed moives like James Bond series doesnt mean they all have stories in it. So if you want to see only the action, a movie creates, you have the liberty to do so.
Joaquin Phoenix, lives in a seedier, punishing version of Gotham City, where he feels persecuted by society at large. But why? If he's mentally ill, what choice did he have? So it's not his choice to adapt the course of his life rather its been dervied by his tic syndrome. So the film ends up as a revenge story where a person wants to get admired taking revenge against the society. So what's intersting in the character? why someone wants to be loved because he's handicapped? I don't want to see any character who actually has no choice of his own to go into the adventure of life. He's been derived by event after event where he only reacts and what he does, he kills anyone who humiliates him. This is not a story , this is a situation.
The film may be a reflection of sad version of our society but then why this character I should be watching, what's is his motivation? There is actually no. So it lacks structure as well. Does he have a desire? Yeah he has one that he wants to be an artist( comedian). The film should have evolved around his desire but it takes another course where the Joker becomes a more disturbed and lower-stakes version of the legendary DC Comics villain.
No doubt that its a piece of remarkable craftsmanship and impressive performances trying to catch the essence of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy but it lacks the structure.
There is no relationship in his course of struggle through whom we can judge his flaws.In fact it's all his actions that shows him a villian rather than a protag. No physical antagonism evolved. yeah there had been one but no physical contact but only at one occasion when he's punched straight in his face by Thomas wayne.
Since the settings is Gotham as we can judge from the posters of that era when there had been rampant crime on the streets with murders and rapes on rise, we see that his mother had been an employee of her and had an illegal affair with him. So it seems he was his illegal child. This antagonism must have been dealt but infact it didn't.
Copying the style of martin Scorsese's body of work of 70's, and 80's American cinema in the vein of Taxi Driver, Todd thought to give himself a chance to be on the list of Martin's kind of elusive films ( though there are certin structure issues in Taxi Driver) but has miserably failed to shine.