How much humiliation a psychotic person can take?

Rating: 7/10 (10 October 2019)

JOAQUIN PHOENIX He re-enacts JOKER with Oomph...
Todd Phillips, the director a New York film school graduate, making not so good comedy and funny flicks - gets fed up with defending his crude comedy take on the world that is criticized by many.
that is the time the idea of JOKER is spotted.
a comedy - that is psycholtic and dark.
In partnership with Scott Silver - (writer/ director) they write the story of rise of JOKER - the Batman arch-villain
I have seen Borat - the story written by Todd. His writing made me think that he writes to provoke and disturb the audience.
Todd carries the same under-current in this too - especially in the scenes of absolute violence. He wants people to be disturbed and enjoy the violence so much that they may start celebrating a psychotic crazy man.
The justification used is about mirroring the society we live in.
The character Arthur Fleck (JOAQUIN PHOENIX) lives with his mother in the eighties Gotham city - which has the downtown dark allies and high crime rate, and corruption - a society that is degraded to its extreme.
All the sympathy that is built for the character is so relate-able that at one point our heart goes out for Arthur - HOW MUCH A PERSON CAN TAKE?
How much a person is subjected to humiliation? What happens if the person is a psychotic? That's what Arthur Fleck is.
Todd gives the liberty to Arthur - the JOKER to show the worst part of human nature - to reflect the society we live in
The violence is disturbing - and one with weak senses - may celebrate such violence by imitating it.
Thus the movie does not serve a moral purpose. But it gains at its cinematic value.
The performance of JOAQUIN PHOENIX as JOKER - is spell binding. I have always loved him in all his movies. He gives his all for a role - so close reminder to Robert De Niro -
Interesting is that the role was suggested for Leonardo De caprio - but Todd stuck with JOAQUIN PHOENIX and the results are outstanding
With eighties set, and no use of CGX - the movie is basic - except the somewhat jittery camera work.
The rise of JOKER to become the nemesis of SUPER hero - was a back-story - which will remain - a WELL TOLD
As much as I am not against LOVE - I am not against violence, but both should not be used as a manipulative tool.
At the end of the movie - we feel that Todd has taken it to extreme and taken the liberty to show us the society we live in.
And if this is the society we live in -
I can only say - LOVE - and conscious LOVE is the only way out
Sadly there is no one to LOVE the JOKER
The movie is getting extreme praise or extreme criticism. Surely JOAQUIN PHOENIX is top for OSCAR race.
It already has fared 5 times its budget of USD 70 million and good for Todd, who wanted a hit.
If the violence was handled more aptly - I would have given higher rating, but now I will go with 7.5 out of 10.