Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019)Well, there has been a lot of care given over to the making of this film. You cannot deny the impact that performances of this character have had in the past, namely Jack Nicholson’s and Heath Ledger’s. Here then Joaquin Phoenix is given his chance to inhabit this role, and of course he does so. Todd Phillips does his best to press all the right buttons, set the film in 80s, have an 80s Warners logo at the beginning, give it a Scorsese, Mean Streets, King of Comedy air. It’s also far grittier than most other Batman films, Gotham City really is an awful place to live it seems. There also seems to be such a massive problem with reality here. It could be argued that a lot of what happens goes on in Arthur’s head. This is apparent with all the inconsistencies in the story-telling. Maybe that’s what superheroes are, meta beings invented in our imagination, now that’s novel.
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