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danisanna

Dark, grizzly and twisted. Great origin story.

4 years 5 months ago

Well this was ... To put it mildly ... utter crap.

Awful story line, full of inaccuracies starting with Jokers real name ( i guess Phillips never read any comic's ).

If you want to make a movie about person with mental illness falling down, dont mix it with DC and call it something else. Remove the suit and the mask and this film can be called "Decent into madness" without literary changing anything else.

On the other hand, Phoenix's acting was brilliant, hands down.

How is this (the movie, not the acting) called masterpiece, is beyond me.

2/10 Movie
9/10 Acting

4 years 5 months ago

lekast

who said Taxi Driver?

4 years 6 months ago

heat_

Movie seems to get some mixed reviews from the audience and critics. I find the main reason for this is that movie is not a typical thriller movie. I can't classify this movie as a comic adaptation, superhero or a classical DC universe movie either. This movie sets the bar too high for these genres. Almost can't find a single hole in terms of cinematography, storytelling, casting, acting.
Pause the movie at any given point and nearly all of the frames are photographs. That is something we don't expect to find in a typical thriller movie.
I just don't want to repeat the generic term however this movie is a masterpiece.

4 years 6 months ago

Gordon_Gekko

I guess yesterday I saw the winning performance for "best actor. Well done Mr. Phoenix!

The film itself reminds me - maybe because he's in the supporting cast - of a mix of two De Niro-movies: Taxi Driver and King of Comedy.

4 years 6 months ago

On cinema at the cinema

An absolute masterpiece. It felt so close to home in so many different ways, I actually almost cried during the movie. Plan on seeing it multiple times.

4 years 6 months ago

ZEDG

A powerful, absorbing and emotional movie, that brought me to tears at the end.

4 years 6 months ago

MordredMS

Not being much of a superhero fan, I found this film surprisingly deep and inspiring. It doesn't go as deep as it could have into a proper critique of the system, but the hints are there, and I found many dynamics of these thematic elements to be surprisingly realistic. spoiler

But more than anything, it's simply a man's descent into madness, as each of his hopes and points of support betrays him, and finds the hilarity he's always wanted to feel and inspire into chaos and vengeance.

Having seen most Batman movies and Arkham games, i always considered Batman nothing more than sociopathic, spoiled rich guy with delusions of grandeur, who acts as an above-the-law vigilante by only acting against small street crime because that is what took his parents from him, for nothing but a desire for vengeance, hiding behind an hypocritical and fake sense of superior morality just because he "doesn't kill" (usually); all the while doing nothing to combat corruption, white collar crime or the other causes that make Gotham the dirty, unjustifiable hellhole of inequality that it is, becoming the personification of bourgeis power fantasy, the Silent Protector of the Status Quo. In other words, he is just the same as the Joker, he simply had the luck of being born healthy and into a rich family rather than into the working class.

Well, this film finally agrees with me.

4 years 6 months ago

karuss

Quite surprised that this film won big at Venice, but its take on anti-capitalism, 70's New Hollywood reverence and a supreme performance by Joaquin wrapped around an atmosphere that you can cut with a knife make it understandable, especially during the times we are living in. The Dark Knight dealt with far more complex issues all around, but this one is more of a psychological representation than a study, which means that its all gloss without the meat and potatoes. Apart from that, I think it's a film well worth revisiting, but it ain't no masterpiece for me.

4 years 6 months ago

aniforprez

ok i don't know what some of the people commenting here expected or watched. someone calls it a failure as a ""batman"" movie. wut? someone says it fails to say anything about capitalism?? HUH???

spoilers it's about a man's descent into madness but portrayed beautifully as someone whom society, people, life and loved ones failed miserably and how someone who was already cracked completely broke down and became a product of their circumstances.

INCREDIBLY depressing and deeply moving, the film executed the theme it wanted excellently. it's not about capitalism or the evils of it, it's not about society, it's about how someone could very realistically be so crushed by the weight of their circumstances that once they see life as endless misery, it turns into a comedy of errors

9/10 this was a really horrifying watch

4 years 6 months ago