My takeaway - Be nice to people!

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2019)

I was given the warning that this movie was going to be one of the most intense movies that I have ever seen. In all fairness it was intense. However, I was not as emotionally connected to it as an intense movie demands. The reason being that the story writing wasn't tight; it was just this - an unfortunate victim of life-long systematic, social bullying kills everyone who had ever wronged him. I wish the story-line probed Joker growing out of his revenge taking mode and becoming a villain in the larger context.

The movie stood tall because of its imagery and an Oscar-deserving performance by Joaquin Phoenix. One of my favorite scenes where both these come together is when he's dancing on those never ending-steps just before his appearance on the Murray's show.
The most important message of the movie for me was that - being nice to people, irrespective of how "normal" or "abnormal" they appear is important. We all have our own inner-monsters, nobody has the right to mock it.