Dark as hell, joker tekes through disturbing journey of Arthur fleck, from being a clown and a wanna please stand up comedian ( with only one joke in his hand. his life) to become THE JOKER. this journey never looked unreal though unlike that of a Hulk or Spider-Man as this journey was quite human, logical and beautiful graphed and captured !
Heath Ledger from the dark knight was my personal favourite joker till date and joaquin phoenix To The legacy of heath to another level altogether. that laugh, that dance, that sprint, that walk.ufff. can't get over that!
Talking about the other aspects of the movie the background music was the soul of the movie, if not the Psyche and the madness of joker itself , the cinematography, the support cost, the direction. everything was right on money, the full the movie very smartly dealt with then situation of America ( the Gotham City) . the unemployment the raising power in the hands of the rich. all it took was a stand and the voice ( be it good or bad) against the established power to become a 'HERO'which further became the reason of the rise in murders and crime in the City!
In his small appearance, the legend Robert de Niro was exceptionally awesome, something that you would expect from him every time you see him on the screen that small conversation at the end between joker and de Niro was cinematic beauty and looked damn organic. an absolute treat to watch!
Don't know about the Oscars, but it was once in a lifetime performance by Joaquin phoenix and would remain in my heart for years and in my brain for days to come, may be. the best for trial of a psycho character that I have seen was that of Christian bale in 'American psycho'. phoenix was right up there too if not above, not only the craziness, disturbance in madness but also the physical transformation was quite commendable.
My one of the favourite lines from the movie was jokers saying to himself "I used to think that my life is a tragedy but now I realise that it is nothing but comedy".so you can imagine how disturbing a movie could be with its thinking tragedy is equal to comedy but it was not that disturbing for me so I am used to of or aware of the ongoing social political structure of our country!
It has got Those 'dark knight'( arguably one of the final superhero movie ever made) vibes I had an emotional right watching small brus wane ( Nolan's Batman) meeting joker, getting to know the pre Batman story of the Gotham city and the backstory are the building-up of the 'joker the villain'of dark knight
it was quite nostalgic for me in that way!
If I would have maximum of 5 star to give to this movie I would have simply divided it by zero. I write this review because this one movie has something that forced me to type and share my views with you guys . I would like to finish this review it was like this is the best movie in last several years that I saw and you can't can't miss it!
So, Just Go and Watch this Movie! And you will also know why this is so amazing!
Joker 2019 is lit.