Joker may be my Movie of the Year

You know, after subsisting on a steady diet of cinematic garbage for the past few weeks, I've been starting to feel the rhythm recently, there's a heaviness in my soul and desperation in my heart, and believe me, you don't want to know what's in my liver, the The point is that I've been searching for an antidote to this poison of entertainment, something I can enjoy without reservation or criticism, a film that will help restore my faith that there are still talented writers and directors producing creative and compelling films. and artistically uncorrupted by divisive politics are cynical money-making executives and it just so happens that I found one last night on Joker and I'm not going to mess around with this review, I'm just going to jump right into it.

Joker is simply a fantastic piece of cinema, a brilliantly written, masterfully filmed, expertly acted and perfectly crafted film that gripped me from the opening scene to the final epic conclusion, a film that made me vibrate as I walked out of the theater knowing that I just saw something really real. Notable, no, I really don't want to spoil this

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for anyone, so if you don't want to know any plot details, skip to this timecode for my analysis and final comments; Otherwise, pour yourself a drink and let's get into this Joker begins in Gotham City in 1981. City on the brink of collapse Jobs and money are scarce and crime and unemployment are through the roof Citizens are increasingly angry and disenchanted with their lives and with the people who are supposed to run their city for them, it was then that they met Arthur Fleck, a mentally disturbed man whose condition causes involuntary laughter when he is stressed or unhappy or who makes a living as a party clown, He struggles to care for his elderly mother and harbors the vague goal of one day becoming a comedian like his idol Murray Franklin. who hosts the popular late night talk show on his way back to his apartment one night, Arthur has a brief encounter with his neighbor Sophie, but things start to go wrong for Arthur when some street thugs mug him and beat him up one day, which prompts one of his co-workers. to give him a gun in case it happens again when he accidentally drops it during a children's performance he loses her job.

He also learns from his disinterested social worker that the city is cutting social spending, meaning he won't receive any more support or medication. To keep his psychosis under control, he is on his way home on the subway one night when his condition attracts a group of drunk and belligerent Wayne Enterprises employees when they begin to beat him, he shits on them in self-defense and flees the scene, but the reports. of a killer who kills three rich men dressed as a clown proves to be the spark that ignites Gotham City's powder keg. The angry and disenfranchised citizens have finally found the target of their frustrations and spark a protest movement against the rich and privileged. classes, especially Thomas Wayne, the millionaire industrialist who plans to run for mayor, strengthened by his achievement.

Arthur enters a relationship with Sophie and goes into crisis for a comedy gig, but her uncontrollable laughter paralyzes him on stage and everything ends as a failure. No, it is around this time that he intercepts a letter from his mother to Thomas Wayne that reveals that he is actually Wayne's illegitimate son. Arthur is shocked to realize that he is not just a hopeless nobody, he was born into something better and becomes obsessed with making contact with his real father, he manages to sneak into a private function one night and approaches with this information alone. for him to fly off and claim that his mother was delusional and that she adopted him when he was a baby.

Arthur refuses to believe this. Then he searches his medical records and discovers the truth: his mother was mentally ill and abused him as a child, and the combination of physical and mental trauma caused him to grow up to suffer psychological damage and the news that he was truly an unwanted abandonment. . and ultimately, a mindless child shatters what remains of Arthur's fragile sanity and holiness. This scene was absolutely devastating to watch. No, this is what you break a character with a revelation about his lineage that totally changes their carefully constructed perception of themselves, knocking them down to their rock bottom.

He takes note. From this

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, my naive, round-headed friend, as he gets further and further away from reality, Arthur visits his mother in the hospital and smothers her with a pillow, then murders a former co-worker who comes to visit him and enters Sophie's apartment in He was stunned that night and we learned that his relationship with her was completely Tyler Durden. He figured he was all desperate to believe that anyone in this world could actually care about him, but his country comedy routine has found an unexpected audience. A clip of him. The uncontrollable laughter on stage has reached his hero Murray Franklin, who mockingly shows it off on his television show.

The clip turns out to be a huge hit and results in Arthur being invited to appear in person on the show. He agrees to do it in one. condition that Franklin introduce him under the name Joker as civil unrest in Gotham reaches a boiling point. Arthur makes an appearance on the show where he admits to killing the three rich men on the subway and bitterly criticizes society for ignoring him and then pulls the gun on him. and he shoots Franklin in the head live on television. His actions cause the growing unrest to explode into riots throughout the city, resulting in the death of Thomas Wayne and his wife in front of his son as they try to flee the chaos and as Arthur is led away. to the nearest police station, the car is rammed off the road by mass protesters and Arthur is lifted from the rubble held in reverence like a God as he realizes that he has finally found the acceptance and voice that he always had. darling.

Arthur dances and celebrates amidst the destruction while the rioters cheer him on and that's basically the plot of Joker although to be honest I can't begin to do it justice in simple words but I'll do my best to explain why this movie she's so good. First, it is an expertly crafted character-driven drama about one man's descent into madness and violent revenge against the world that ignored him throughout his life. The pacing of the dialogue, soundtrack, and cinematography are spot on, perfectly capturing the feel of a city. Decline and Decay is a low-key kind of movie that doesn't have a lick of CGI nonsense getting in the way, a movie that's firmly anchored in its main character, his journey, and the actor who plays him, speaking of the performance of Joaquin Phoenix.

Because Arthur is just phenomenal, I couldn't take my eyes off this guy the entire movie. I mean, he's clearly lost a lot of sleep for the role and that works not only in his gaunt face and strangely deformed body, but also in his mannerisms and movements. His entire being has never seen an actor capable of playing so many facets of a character simultaneously, the way he is able to go from vulnerable and pathetic to devastated, emotional, murderous and psychotic in the same scene almost defies anyone's belief. haven't done it. I've seen it, but pay special attention to your eyes during these moments, not only does the look in them change, it changes the very essence of what is behind them and brings it all to the surface, as if snapping your fingers, sadness , loneliness, innocence, frustration, rage and revenge are there for you to see.

Arthur is a character who constantly changes in this film, not only his behavior and his mood, but also his understanding of who he is and where he comes from. It forces you to reexamine who and what this man is, how he sees the world and how other people see him, but even in his darkest, most manic form there is a core of pain and sadness in him as he rants and raves. about his societies treat him he is not a calculating psychopath enjoy every moment of this he is an angry and hurt soul lashes out you know a world that he does not understand and that he does not understand talking about not understanding the Joker this is a movie that provokes The strong ones Reactions among the film critic community seem as if everyone wants to put a label of some kind on him so they can denigrate him for promoting dangerous ideas that threaten their worldview or elevate him for aligning with their political beliefs, although the good news is that most Most of those people are clueless and increasingly irrelevant morons who care more about their own ideology than making an honest assessment of the movies, but don't worry, the drinker is here to cut you off and tell you the truth about Joker.

You know a lot of people who really don't understand York horror movies in general have claimed that this movie glorifies sales and inspires them to hit back at the world for making fun of them. This was interesting to me because I had no idea what a sale was, so I had to look. I uploaded it but then I did and it made me laugh because it's just another example of professional activists, oh sorry, film critics trying to plot 20:19 politics in a movie they can't or won't understand, the truth is than being in a cell It has almost nothing to do with Arthur's story.

From time to time he fantasizes about having a relationship with his attractive neighbor, but there is not much sexual element to this illusion. Oh, Arthur really what he wants is genuine human contact, love, companionship, acceptance and happiness, the things that have been denied to him. As a result, all his life he is a desperately sad and lonely man who has been pushed to the bottom of the abyss by a society that doesn't give a damn. Joker is a film that dares to suggest that straight white men can be straight, too. oppressed, marginalized and forgotten like everyone else, so it's no surprise that today's activists, oh sorry again, film critics have reacted so strongly.

We can't have those pesky white men still in any of those precious victim spots. Can we see the other side of this perspective? They are the people who claim that the film promotes a left-wing message because the central struggle is one of class war and privilege; is the story of the poor, marginalized and exploited masses rising up in violent rebellion against their evil capitalist overlords, again, a flawed and oversimplified assessment of Joker because neither side of this conflict is depicted as morally correct or justified by In the film, the would-be revolutionaries who are so eager to join Arthur's cause are portrayed as angry and violent murderous thugs who use their cause as an excuse to wreak destruction and chaos.

We are not interested in overthrowing the corrupt system to create a better and fairer one in its place, there are simply bad people who hide their envy, resentment and intolerance behind the facade of a just cause, kind of like real life, so , in the same way, rich and powerful people. Gotham are portrayed as arrogant, disdainful, and detached from reality. Thomas Wayne, for example, uses the growing civil unrest as a springboard to launch his political career, but the films are ambiguous about what his true motives are - perhaps he is doing it out of his own personal ambition or perhaps because he genuinely wants to help the people. citizens of Gotham, we never find out that Murray Franklin, the successful talk show host, is equally undefined, mocking Arthur's failed stand-up routine and exploiting embarrassment for cheap laughs on his TV show, but when you deal with him face to face. is friendly, respectful and accommodating, maybe he's just a rich celebrity who doesn't give a damn about the common man or maybe he's doing what he can to bring a little humor and entertainment to otherwise grim and gloomy ones about which the film does not judge.

Either way, these two men are seen from the outside from Arthur's point of view, he doesn't have a deeper understanding of their drives, personalities, motivations and therefore neither do we, and I guess that's the real point. here. This is a story about people feeling and understanding each other about not seeing the other person's point of view and how that lack of understanding can easily turn into anger, resentment and revenge. This was never more clear than during his final speech on television, where Arthur rages against the world full of ugliness. hatred and injustice, a world where people only see their own effective person and angrily dismiss anything or anyone that contradicts them again, something like real life.

I like movies, I'm not afraid to take a shot at grandiose preachy moralists who see it as their right and responsibility to police what everyone else should consider funny the directors made no secret of the fact that they moved away from comedy because nowadays everyone gets offended by everything and the end result is that comedians are no longer allowed to be funny and all I can say is rock the on sir, ultimately then Joker is not a movie about anyspecific political ideology and I think it's a pretty damning indictment of our society that that's how we're so desperate to frame it, the truth is that it's bigger than that it's smarter than that it's more fundamental than that Joker is a film that transcends the Politics is a story about human nature a film that speaks to our deepest fears and insecurities about the world and about ourselves and if there is a message to take away from this film like maybe we should treat each other a little kinder not hate to those who started with more than us or belittling those who ended up with less not making fun of people who don't fit in or demonizing those who do and for a movie made in 2019, therefore, it's not a bad feeling in my book anyway, that's all I have for today, go now