Joker
9/10
This
was was amazing. Let me say that first. Joker immediately became one
of my favorite movies this year for a lot of reasons I'll cover
later. This is gonna be full of spoilers by the way. There has been
so much controversy about this movie and how it may inspire violence.
That seems more like a society problem than a movie making problem to
me. If you have built it so that if someone with a mental issue has
access to get a weapon and use it on others that does not mean you
ban every movie where violence can occur. Did people ban Amy Schumer
films after Trainwreck? Shit happens. It sucks but that's just the
way things are sometimes. Shit happens because some people suck. The
theater I went to was more than half full on a Tuesday afternoon at
2pm and they even clapped when it was done.
This
movie is about fucking mental health care!
You
can watch TV shows and movies about people doing bad shit and not be
inspired by it. I loved Dexter but never wanted to wrapped folks in
plastic and stabbed them. I loved John Wick but never wanted to go on
a killing spree. Are there people that will? Sure. There are people
walking around looking for any reason to be a shitbird and stopping
any form of cinema will not stop it. I bet right now if you made a
list of your five favorite shows/books/movies they feature some
fucked up stuff. Anyhoot, this movie takes place in the early 80's
and it very much looks like so. I loved it. Arthur Fleck is a clown
for hire. He goes to parties. Dancing in front of shops. Whatever.
One day his sign gets snatched and he chases the kids down before
getting jumped by them. One of his coworkers gives him a gun to
protect himself.
Gotham
City is going to shit with a garbage strike and everyone being mad.
Arthur lives with his mother who has him check the mail every day for
a response from Thomas Wayne to help her out since she worked for the
family years ago. Arthur also goes to a therapist who doesn't really
listen to him all that much. There is every sign that this dude is
gonna fuck shit up eventually. Arthur has a neurological disorder
that makes him laugh at weird moments. Arthur meets this lady mother
named Sophie. They hook up real quick and I was like “You need to
stay the hell away from him!” He follows her all around the city
and barges into her place to make out. He takes her to one of his
stand up shows that gets recorded and played on his favorite late
night talk show.
One
day while performing at a kids hospital his gun falls out and he
tries to play it off as being part of the show. The guy he got the
gun from even starts to say shady shit about Arthur. On a subway ride
home Arthur gets jumped by three businessmen and shoots all three of
them dead. Thomas Wayne goes on TV and says anyone that would wear a
mask and commit crime is a clown. Next thing you know everyone wants
the rich people taken down and start wearing clown masks. Funding
gets shut down for Arthur's therapy and he no longer has access to
the seven medications he is on.
Now
all kinda crazy shit starts happening. He is invited on his favorite
talk show. He checks one of the letters his mother was sending to
Thomas Wayne and it says that he is Arthur's father. I was ready to
check out because that is such a shit plot twist. My Batman tattoos
started burning. He heads to Wayne Manor and does some tricks through
the gate for a young Bruce Wayne and chokes Alfred. Some police come
to question Arthur about the subway killings and his mother ends up
having a stroke. Arthur sneaks into a show and confronts Thomas Wayne
in the bathroom about being his dad and Wayne is like “Your mom is
crazy and I am not your father.” Then he punches Arthur in the
face. Arthur ends up getting some files form the hospital regarding
his mother and finds out that not only was he adopted but his mother
and her boyfriends beat the fuck out of him.
I am
gonna stop covering everything in this movie now. There is way more
that happened. If this is the only Joker movie with this cast I am
good with it. The Joker is one of those characters that has no real
origin so you can have fun with it. People are comparing this with a
lot of other movies and they are free to do that. You can compare
anything with anything. But the movies they are comparing it with are
great movies. What was funny is that they showed a trailer for Birds
of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and it
felt like trash compared to this. If you wanna see this movie go see
it. It has great acting. The soundtrack is really good. The way the
movie looked was awesome. I really enjoyed this. If you are worried
about being shot at because of this wait to rent it. And don't go to
the movies. Or drive. Or go hiking. Or travel. Or eat pork. Or let
dogs lick you (a lady lost all her limbs after her dog licked her!).
Joaquin
Phoenix as Arthur Fleck/Joker
Robert
De Niro as Murray Franklin
Zazie
Beetz as Sophie Dumond
Frances
Conroy as Penny Fleck
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