How psycopaths and serial killers are born

Rating: 8/10 (13 October 2019)

Joker wins its audience by giving its suffering protagonist a satisfying revenge, which is very good but nothing so significant or groundbreaking about it, Nothing except for Phoenix's tour-de-force performance.
The movie came out exactly as I had expected it to be , playing it safe in terms of the story, a pretty conventional one and the trailers obviously demonstrate that, How psycopaths are born? How the society with its cruelty brings out the worst -or maybe the innermost true identities- of human beings ?
Throughout the movie I thought it lacked the uniquely authentic vibes of Scorsese's Taxi Driver & The King of Comedy , Come on you had Phoenix himself , The man who gave one of the best performances I have ever seen in my life in The Master , but I think that's what you get when you -out of craving Hype- propose a daring idea like this to a big studio owning the rights to an exceptional character like DC's The Joker ,you won't make full use of Phoenix's talent, because whatever he does as the Joker , people will approve ..
This is my major problem with this movie , it is craving popularity .. People started comparing Phoenix to Ledger even before the movie came out ,
I think that movie would have worked as a character study away from DC ,
Now for Joaquin Phoenix's performance ,DAMN,
That man is unstoppable since The Master and you were never really here , He keeps pushing the boundaries and he doesn't seem to care about that ,
His crying laughter , his body performance and That scene towards the end of the movie when he shot Murray and then sat still tapping the floor with his feet and then walked around while smiling , I was mesmerized ,
That man is a living legend and he channels his real-life agony through his performance,I really can't find the words to praise it.
As for the Cinematography , JAW-DROPPING
The score suits the melancholic atmosphere of the movie
Todd Philips deserves the credit for giving the role to Phoenix but deserves the blame for directing a movie about the Joker which could have exceptional on its own as a comic book movie and Phoenix could have been any deranged serial killer/Psycopath in any movie and he
would be perfect as usual.
One other thing , Phoenix deserves an Oscar but I think he could be snubbed by the Academy because of the backlash the movie is getting for promoting violence, which I find absurd and silly of course