Movie Review: Joker

As Warner announced after more than mediocre DC Lineup of the last years for the Joker Film with a new cast and without the Batman, made at the most for a collective eyebrow-raise. However, after it became known, who would play the mad Clown, and how the strip is to be created, increased the expectations immensely. Now is the Joker here, and provides as much turmoil as long as there is no Film more.

CONTENT

Arthur Fleck lives with his sick mother under poor conditions in the urban jungle of Gotham City. With his Job as a rent a Clown, he can keep just about water, but he loves this task. Even under a fault, suffering, the laughter led him under a lot of Stress in an uncontrolled manner, and a depth in him-rooted, long-lasting sadness, is he obsessed with the idea, to make people Laugh. Unfortunately, his quirk, and the ever greater social unrest, decaying town brings him in trouble.

He is beaten up by a gang for the fun of it, his colleagues cut him where you can his Comedian-ambitions end in disgrace. As also his psychological Advisor opens, it will be due to Budget cuts, no further meetings, and also his meds will be deleted, loses Arthur, slowly but surely, the Grip and is lost in his fantasy world. When it comes to a late night subway ride to a serious incident, tearing the last of the Fuses, the Arthur of the society to change in the keep alive, and he begins to a new, highly dangerous Person.

(Center) with JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur dot in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “the JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

CRITICISM

A straight to the point: the Joker is a Drama. Not a super hero movie, not a action flick. It is the psychogram of a man who has made it a lifetime, to walk on the edge of the abyss, only then, through a chain of unfortunate and unjust circumstances, crashing. And he pulls everything he can reach into the depth. The spectator becomes a witness of each painful step in this unspeakable way. Right there is the crux of all the Controversy around this Film. There are no heroes, and no other figure of identification. Yes, all of the pain and the humiliation, the need to experience Arthur, excite sympathy, or even pity, but never sympathy. Because each time you realize you have to do it here with a severely disturbed man who is capable of anything. The fact that the camera captures at every point in time only his perspective, amplifies the discomfort further.

Thanks to the Film has been a difficult balancing act almost exclusively to his starring Joaquin Phoenix. The Mime has proved in the past years already several times, that he is one of the greatest of his Generation. Here he is, however, a monument, over the a long time of talk will be. Emaciated and ill-looking he disappears in this to Fail, damn man, who slides further and further into madness, complete. He it is who permits, in spite of all the terrible things that happen to Arthur, through his body language and Facial expression that suggests you on his side. To black, the darkness behind his eyes, too wide, his Smile, and just these tiny Tick to fake his Gestures.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX as Arthur dot in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “the JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Film connoisseurs might be wondering at this point: “don’t I know that from somewhere?” And you’re right. Over 40 years ago, there was this Story once before, in the Form of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. The was a completely different Person with a different history, but the movies are the same, however, striking, in terms of concept, Plot and visual language. This in itself is not a real point of criticism, has Joker but enough of its Own to offer, far from plagiarism to stand. However, it has Todd Phillips with his obvious love for the Era and of the old master works, is a bit exaggerated. A more than just a similar movie is one thing, the model but then at every opportunity, to quote but a very different. So you can’t get rid of the impression that the Director would have tried to force something like an unofficial Remake to realize.

Just one example of the Casting of Robert De Niro in a small but important supporting role is. Of the delivers a first-class performance, as well as the rest of the cast, however, fade them all in addition to Phoenix’s performance. Despite the obvious bonds of the (also hard-to-controversial) classic from 1976, remains the Joker is an excellent Film, because such a Story so that an audience goes, is not an easy thing. Even sadder is the fact that the entire discourse about the Film exhausted only to its depiction of violence and its possible effects on the audience, is. He wants to raise other issues, such as dealing with mental diseases in the company’s day-to-day or social injustice. All of this goes in the heated (and lazy, because for decades guided) discussion on the portrayal of violence, unfortunately, completely under.

Finally, we noted that the technical presentation of the highest quality. The Gotham City the Joker is like a New York of the 80s, has a dirty and degenerate, but of camera-in-chief Lawrence Sher, nevertheless, in strange and beautiful images captured. Phillips directing is excellent, although, as already mentioned, a little too much from the great model inspired. Special Effects and Stunt-work is very small, but is managed beautifully. Another Highlight of the film, his musical background is. The atonal string sounds continue to support the ominous mood and the beat with the classics of the 50s and 60s, exclusively from great entertainers, as Arthur likes to one.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX as the Joker in Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and BRON Creative’s “the JOKER,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

CONCLUSION

Todd Phillips is driving the approach of a Christoper Nolan to give the Comic a realistic coat of paint on the tip. Nothing on the Joker feels like a Comic book film to what it actually even is. He takes the figure of the eternal Batman-against a player and a Drama weaves around the course, without explicit references to the template. An unpleasant and disturbing psycho-grams out of that, especially from the breathtaking power of its main cast member is worn, and some serious questions about the state of our society raises. Only the fact that Joker only can past scars, an involuntary Remake of a great classic-to-be, gnawing a little on the otherwise excellent overall impression.