Joker is a glorified journey into a man's descent into madness.

Rating: 10/10 (5 October 2019)

#Joker is an intense character study movie, not your typical comic book story movie at all (and hence, not for everyone and certainly not for teenagers). It's a deep, crude dive into a man's descent into madness and a lucid depiction of a sick mind. It's filled with gritty raw human emotion with no sublimation. It leaves you with a tormenting bitterness that might stay for a while!
It draws widely from the source material in terms of small arcs, character details and lines, though the latter is a bit generalized. References to "The Killing Joke" are alluringly evident here and there. There is a handful of great lines that shine in the context of the portrayed suffering. It's violent, dark and will keep you at the edge of your seat with all its painstalkingly disturbing unfoldings, but do not jump on the propaganda bandwagon on this. It's dark!! That's true, but certainly not darker than the source material.
Cinematography and camera angles are a work of beauty. Music shares in the buildup of a certain aura. Screenplay and plot are orchestrated to serve the general scheme. Todd Philips's narrative unfolds after elaborate buildup. He follows in the steps of Scorsese an borrows his glasses sometimes to shine the spotlight on his creation/theories. He tries to sell outrage, societal oppression and politics and their cumulative effect on the chaos that ensues. Joaquin Phoenix is totally brilliant. He gracefully jumps from a state to another and drags you into opposing points on the spectrum of emotion in an effortless-seemingly act. There have been calls claiming his act is Oscar-worthy!
Joker, as a character, is an oversimplification of an idea that fights to takeover as much as it can of our psychology. He's never the answer but often the question that nobody asks. An unstoppable force premise, flawed but existential.
Joker, the movie, is a masterpiece in every aspect that's definitely not for everyone! It points out to a problem and a problematic solution in a world of widely-gapped societies and self-centered ideoligies that overcompensate with interest-driven orientation, vindictive projection and malice. It's an incarnation of the chaos that uproars inside us and the most vile and horrid outcomes that can unravel out of it.. with a bloody smile!!
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