Applauding this film's message is profoundly disturbing.

Rating: Null/10 (20 April 2020)

Joker is a billion + dollar validation of the over-arching ethos in today's society: "I am a victim".
For folks who work hard every day on internal locus of control, personal responsibility and (despite the pain and suffering that is guaranteed in this life for ALL of us) maintaining a sense of gratitude and hopeful perseverance, it should be a shrill and disturbing alarm that this film receives seemingly universal praise amidst even louder righteous acquittal of the main character's murderous vengeance.
Worse, one reviewer here decreed everyone in the world EXCEPT the Joker needs to be a better person. Particularly those of us who can't "relate" to feeling alone and isolated. This is the same mentality that would put the blame on "mean people" or society in general, and then specifically on a mental health professional rather than the individual who decided to go out and murder.
Victim stance is far worse than a distorted, personal-responsibility-absolving crutch, it is a powerful, addictive, debilitating narcotic already being mass produced/consumed in our present society. And this film is one of the dealers.