Arthur Fleck is an aspiring stand-up who earns a living as a clown in Gotham. Afflicted with a mental condition that makes him laugh uncontrollably, Arthur lives with his mother and is routinely brutalised by the city around him. However, as the city slowly spirals out of control, so too does Arthur begin to lose his grip on his sanity...
'Joker' sets out to do the impossible, when you come right down to it. It wants you to sympathise with a character who has been previously portrayed as a mass-murdering terrorist, a gleefully evil psychopath, and, in one case, a heavily tattooed... goth? The point is, that no matter what, the character of Joker is always going to be interpreted differently. Joaquin Phoenix undoubtedly gives one of his most intense, physical and disturbing performances in the role.
It's when you start to pick at this that 'Joker' gets really disturbing, and when things begin to spin further out to engulf the whole city, there's a sense that the movie is leaning itself heavily into nihilistic territory. It's brutal stuff, and the manner in which violence takes off in 'Joker' is vicious and, again, disturbing.
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