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Joker(released Aug/19)stars,among others,Joaquin Phoenix,Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy.
The story finds Phoenix,one Arthur Fleck, a mentally disturbed loner,with a job as a clown in an agency that specializes in providing them for clients.He lives with his mother and cares for her every need.He is also undergoing periodic supervision for his mental issues with a city provided counselor from whom his gets his seven different meds.His life is nothing but a dreary and constant beatdown and his meds help to keep his inner rage and negative feelings under control.
When on a subway he encounters three drunk men bothering a young lady,he starts involuntarily laughing(a major issue)and they come over and start literally beating on him.The day before on a job,he had a sign taken from him outside a business that was closing.He chased the thieves but they turned on him and put the boots to him.One of his co workers later gave him a gun and this he uses on the men in the subway,ending their lives.It turns out the men who were shot worked for a firm owned by billionaire Thomas Wayne,who is is currently running for mayor and who thinks the down trodden are all clowns that need the kind of help only he can provide.The gun in question also gets him fired when it accidentally drops out of his costume while performing at a children's hospital.That along with the made up testimony of a co worker who said Phoenix took his gun from him.That lie would come back to fatally bite him in the butt.
At home Phoenix sits with his mother every night watching the Murray Franklin Show(DeNiro),a kind of Johnny Carson knock off.One night just as the show ends his mother asks her son not to forget to mail yet another letter,among dozens she has written to Thomas Wayne over the years.Curious he opens it and reads it.In it he learns that he is the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne,with whom she had a clandestine affair with years before.
The next day he visits Wayne's estate but only gets as far as the iron gates.However he gets to meet Wayne's son Bruce(his future nemesis) briefly,until broken up by the butler Alfred.When Phoenix explains who he is and who his mother is,Alfred tells him that his mother was delusional and that there was no such tryst between her and Mr.Wayne.
Meanwhile the city has cut funding and Phoenix ends up falling between the system's cracks,with no counseling and no meds.While he had been out at Wayne Manor,the police had shown up investigating the subway murders and asking questions to his mother.She ended up having a stroke and he arrived home just in time to accompany her in the ambulance.At the hospital he sees a clip of part of a stand up routine he did in a comedy club a few day before on Murray Franklin's show.It's an embarrassing one and done purposely by Franklin for derogatory laughs.
Having had no luck at Wayne Manor, Phoenix attends a charity screening of Chaplin's Modern Times(some would argue the ultimate clown)disguised as an usher.He confronts Mr.Wayne in the washroom and hears yet again that his mother was mentally ill and he was not his child.To top it off he gets a punch in the face for his troubles.The next day he goes to the State Hospital to look up his mother's records there,to find out once and for all who he is.The truth isn't his mothers but Mr.Wayne's, and he was not only adopted but violently abused by a boyfriend of his mother's.
When he gets back home he gets a call from the Murray Franklin Show wanting him to appear on the show because of the clip that was run.That night while visiting his mother he calmly suffocates her.The next day comes his appearance on the TV show.Everything starts out quite well but soon devolves into something else.The meds are no longer in him to calm his demons and with his clarity of thoughts comes explosive action and reaction.He admits to the subway killings and then kills Mr.Franklin.
On his way in the police car to the station it is T-boned by an ambulance.The driver of that pulls Phoenix out of the car and lays him on the hood.Around are dozens of rioters all dressed like clowns-a demonstration aimed towards Mr.Wayne and his comments there of.Phoenix slowly gets up,puts two fingers on the inside of his mouth and pushes up to reveal the Joker persona the world(at least Gotham City) would come to know.The film ends with Phoenix in the State Hospital being chased in the halls by an attendant.
Talk about dedication to his craft.Phoenix looks like a concentration camp survivor in his role,having lost something near 60 pounds.It's quite a disturbing sight at times.And as much as you want to look away ,you just can't because you want to see what's coming next.As a character study it isn't so much a look at a descent into mental hell,but is more of someone mentally disturbed that walks around the shallow and middle parts of the pool before taking the inevitable dive into the deep end.The system's failure,which his counselor admits doesn't give a damn about either he or she,is more or less the problem and the ultimate catalyst that facilitates his downward spiral.But is his really downward or upward? Because this is the first spark,the beginning, of what would become DC comics most famous villain.It all depends on your perspective.
All in all a great film and character study.Phoenix deservedly won an Academy award for his work here.The film is raw,disturbing and quite revealing about society as a whole and the institutions which it funds,and those that fall through it's ever widening cracks.If ever there was a back story that gave us more pity than censure in regards to its subject matter,this would be it.
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Joker
“Joker” centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.
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- Reviewed in Canada on May 19, 2025Verified Purchase
The movie was great! The 4K disc seems to be faulty though: my player reads my other 4Ks fine, but it claims this one is unreadable. However, the Blu-ray worked, and I got it on sale, so I don't mind that much.
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Jose Aron Mendoza FloresReviewed in Mexico on September 17, 2023
Joker 4k
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Andrea S.Reviewed in Italy on September 13, 2020
Gemma inaspettata, Joaquin Phoenix gigantesco
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riccardoReviewed in Italy on February 3, 2025
Un attore straordinario
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Jose Labella TrujillanoReviewed in Spain on February 19, 2025
Correcto.
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Marco PettiReviewed in Italy on February 22, 2024
JOKER...LA RISATA DELLA FOLLIA ! UN CAPOLAVORO A DIR POCO !
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Due ore di film, due ore di primi piani di Joaquin Phoenix e della sua dolorosa risata da iena. Di denti storti, di lacrime, di un corpo magrissimo che si contorce in un ballo alla Pierrot o che davanti a quella tenda sembra compiere una trasformazione. Quell'uomo sta mutando in qualcos'altro, sta letteralmente cambiando pelle. Arthur Fleck sta diventando Joker. Non un Joker, ma il Joker, la nemesi di Batman che tutti conosciamo, lo psicopatico pagliaccio assassino di Gotham City, capace di trasformare un omicidio in una gag alla Looney Tunes. Perché "questa è la vita" e questo è pure tutto, gente. Solo che Arthur è una persona che viene dall'inferno e attorno al quale è costruito un film nero e a tratti disturbante.Marco PettiJOKER...LA RISATA DELLA FOLLIA ! UN CAPOLAVORO A DIR POCO !
Reviewed in Italy on February 22, 2024
C'è una tensione continua nel film diretto e scritto con Scott Silver da Todd Phillips. Ci sono le musiche dell'ìslandese Hildur Guðnadóttir che continuano a grattare metaforicamente unghie sulla lavagna al centro del petto dello spettatore, mentre il protagonista, un povero reietto lasciato ai margini dalla società e calpestato, fisicamente e psicologicamente, da quasi chiunque gli stia attorno, completa la sua trasformazione senza che sia necessario l'intervento di una mosca impicciona.
È proprio questo il bello e l'intimamente pericoloso del Joker di Todd Phillips, sta tutto nella descrizione che ho appena dato del suo protagonista. Tutte le discussioni sul pericolo emulazione, il timore di sparatorie nel paese in cui le armi automatiche le trovi in omaggio nei sacchetti di patatine, vanno necessariamente inquadrate in una premessa e una considerazione. La premessa è che qualsiasi cosa può esercitare un'influenza pericolosa su una mente squilibrata, da una certa canzone dei Beatles, metti, alla Bibbia o alle palline di mais al formaggio. E non puoi censurare per questo l'arte, per la semplice ragione che altrimenti si dovrebbe eliminare le favole e praticamente qualsiasi altra forma di narrazione. Ma qui si è nel club del videoludico, del capolavoro.
La considerazione, data la premessa, è che un soggetto che si senta ai bordi dell'esistenza, rifiutato dal sistema, possa trovare facile in Arthur un simbolo, tanto quanto avviene nel film per chi indossa le maschere da clown. Questo perché la pellicola di Phillips ti porta ad empatizzare con il personaggio, sottolinea come ogni data azione violenta di Arthur sia rivolta a chi gli ha fatto del male, lo ha attaccato, ha provocato o accresciuto i suoi traumi psicologici. Sia meritata. Sia, almeno fino a un certo limite, giusta. Il Joker di Phillips è un Punitore triste con la risata incontrollata, un Giustiziere della Notte, e come tale viene visto nella storia dalla parte di Gotham che si sente lasciata fuori dalla società dei ricchi e dei potenti.
Arthur diventa Joker perché il sistema non funziona e non lo aiuta; Joker è un figlio a tutti gli effetti del marcio della società, oltre che un suo simbolo. Il passaggio successivo, la trasformazione e la compiaciuta incarnazione dell'anarchia stessa, fa esaltare il pubblico. Il che nella migliore delle ipotesi si tradurrà in una pioggia di avatar con la faccia truccata di Phoenix sui social network, in una nuova maschera che ne esaltare la sua figura. JOKER È ENTRATO IN SCENA ED È UN CAPOLAVORO !
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