The Joker, a new look on mental issues

 The Joker, a movie of Todd Phillips released in 2019 gives a brand new gaze on mental issues and on the character of the Joker.

Arthur Fleck, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is a broken humorist without a future due to his mental health and his questionable sense of humor. One night he murdered two out of three men who are working in Wayne Investment that were drunk at this moment after they beat him up. His notoriety as a clown and as a humorist grew after that, in two different ways; he was wearing makeup when he murdered those men and is seen as a hero because he killed dangerous influential men but his humoristic career grows due to the fact that Murray Franklin made fun of his bad humor on TV. Arthur confessed his crimes on a TV show hosted by Murry Franklin, played by Robert De Niro, before he shot him in the head after a violent verbal exchange between the two men.

Joaquin Phoenix is splendid in this movie, his depiction of the arc nemesis of Batman is as great as Heath Ledger's; to don't say better because both are excellent in two different ways. Joaquin Phoenix did a lot of research about the mental illnesses that he wanted to depict and also ask the people who were touched by it what are the side effects of the medicines that they are taking, that's why he is so underweight in the movie.

The movie is dark but is a representation of a reality that is not often depicted on the silver screen; the movie represent mental health in a realistic way, which is often badly done in cinema and gives a bad representation of the people who have those mental illnesses, and this movie also represent a category of poor people who are living in New York, which is hard to find in a movie because Hollywood always shows a great city where everyone is happy and have an healthy lifes.

5/5 This movie is great, it shows us a side of the United States, and the world, that we are actually try to hide because nobody really want to talk about mental health and due to the youth who is starting to openly speak about it, this movement leads to changes in cinema who also barely start to speak about it in an accurate way.The cinematography is also great because it is as dark as Arthur's mental health but it also makes the spectator think about if what happens is real or it is just created by Arthur's mind.

 

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