I left the movie theater with a rather violent stomach tightening, a tightening that was activated from the first minutes of the movie.
The sequences with hard and quite psychically uncomfortable impact kept me in front of the screen without blinking. Joker is a movie that you "take" and not only watch.
If you manage to understand him in his depth and if you empathize with the main character, it will probably tear you down a bit.
Without a doubt, Joker is the movie of 2019.
Its role is to penetrate the most sensitive and dark psychological shelters of a society where the poor struggle to survive, and the rich use them to climb the social ladder.
Does it sound familiar to you?
I'm not telling you anything new, but the brutal way in which the film manages to convey the message, including the final uprising that worries authorities that it might give ideas to real-life evil-doers, helps a fabulous portrayal of modern times.
Evil does not exist, it is created.
We are born without evil, but we learn with it, some even learn it, we become evil in person.
The story of the Joker is the story of the weak man with mental problems, whom he would like to keep in the reins. Unforgettable sequence with the bus ticket.
It's just one of the relevant sequences that shows how society thrives in it: it hits, it hurts, it hits, it lands, then it spits.
And when close people betray you, madness comes to a head.
The film does not excuse criminals or criminals in the series. It only enters the mind of one of them.
The "monster" was once a weak man with a good soul. He became a monster because only then could he get the respect of those around him.
We live in a world in which the strong are defeated and the weak are eaten.
Joaquin Phoenix has masterfully played the Joker, and when I say masterful, I really want to point that out.
I woke up many times during the movie saying aloud, enough to hear the neighbors sitting: "God, how does this man play ...!", "This is Oscar ..."
and I don't think I'm wrong, considering the worldwide reactions of those who have already seen it: "it's a masterpiece", "a work of art".
I want to see him again the second time.
Why this movie should not win the Oscars?