![]() Phoenix makes the story work due to its remarkably captivating display of someone who's mentally ill. It's a dark, brutal, violent, emotionally powerful origin of a villain who I feel disturbingly empathetic towards. Even uncomfortable with what I was watching and consequently feeling. Throughout the entire runtime, I felt weird. Todd Phillips and Scott Silver developed a brilliant screenplay, but Phoenix elevates it to a whole other level. However, let's switch to Phoenix since he's the star of this show … He has 2019's best performance, by far! With a strong marketing campaign, I'm sure he'll get that Oscar. In conclusion, it's both unfair, and a bit unreasonable to compare both interpretations since their roles have a different impact on the narrative, as well as each film being entirely different. Finally, Phoenix is the sole protagonist of this feature, while Ledger had the best live-action Batman sharing the spotlight. Then, despite Phoenix and Ledger portraying the same "version" of the clown (crazy, sadistic psychopath), the former is 90% Arthur Fleck while the latter is 100% Joker, throughout each of their movies. First of all, The Dark Knight and Joker couldn't be more distinct films, even if they belong to the same genre (despite Joker being unique, it's still about a famous comic-book villain). That's the number one mistake people are going to keep making forever. Now, if there's something I'm not going to do is compare his performance with Heath Ledger's. I'll simply begin with the person that elevates the entire thing: Joaquin Phoenix. It's a character study like we haven't seen in a long time. It doesn't follow the generic origin story formula, it avoids any cliches associated with the genre, and it's the type of movie that's becoming more and more rare nowadays. It's by far one of the less comic-book-y flicks of the century. ![]() I mean, how couldn't it be?! Besides belonging to the superhero genre, DC has been on a streak of great films within its universe, so an isolated installment definitely excites me, especially about one of the evilest villains ever. Obviously, Joker is one of my most anticipated movies of 2019. If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) ![]() ![]() Reviewed by msbreviews 9 / 10 Reviewed on October 04, 2019, Fri at 02:44 PM ![]()
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