Joker

Rating: Overflowing

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy and Brett Cullen

Director: Todd Phillips

Writers: Todd Phillips and Scott Silver

Based on: DC comics

Producers: Bradley Cooper, Todd Phillips and Emma Tillinger Koskoff

Music by: Hildur Guonadottir

Rated: R for strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and breif sexual images

Release Date: 10/04/19

Favorite Character: Arthur Fleck/the Joker

Tagline: Put on a Happy Face

Quote: “The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don’t”- Arthur Fleck/the Joker

Fun Facts: The film becomes controversial due to people worrying that the movie may cause violence.

In fact, a cinema in Colorado (the same one where the deadly shooting took place while showing ‘The Dark Knight Rises’) refused to show the movie.

Phoenix lost 52 lbs before filming.

An ambulance drivers at the end of the film is olympic silver medalist Josh Lakatos.

Summary: A story of a struggling comedian who went to become the famous Batman villain, The Joker.

The Review: See this movie and you are up for Phoenix’s powerful performance and deep psychological, even though it did not affect me at all, chances are it will make you will not see the clowns the same again.

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