"Joker" Will Change Comic Book Cinema - A Few Thoughts...
Approaching my thoughts on Joker has been an interesting ride. I cannot, for the life of me, get this movie out of my head. It has been at the forefront of my thoughts from the moment I walked out of the theater after that first viewing. I have seen the film twice, and I can say without a doubt that this movie is like nothing I’ve ever seen—a sentiment that I’ll touch on in a bit. What director Todd Phillips and actor Joaquin Phoenix have created here is something truly special, unique, of its own, and incredibly of its time. Some critics have said that this movie glorifies violence, that it places its central character on a pedestal and celebrates the chaos and destruction he is so intricately connected to from the source material. Well…that’s an opinion, I suppose, one that I whole-heartily disagree with. Joker is a villain origin story that does something truly masterful: it makes you relate and empathize with the main character, until you just absolutely can’t. Joke