Joker: Kétszemélyes téboly

Collective psychosis made Todd Phillips believe that he is a great director and saviour of the comic-book film genre, so in his new movie he came up with a feeble-minded courtroom drama, a comically flat psychothriller set in a prison, a psychotically stiff musical, allusions to a dark superhero film and a clichéd cherchez la femme romance, which is perhaps supposed to elicit compassion for the chaotic incel in the lead role. Of course, none of this is good and the individual genre elements don’t help. Joaquin Phoenix is definitely a great actor, as he lost a lot of weight for the role and constantly pretends to be a martyr because, yes, in this film he is primarily a victim of the will of others. Perhaps in the years to come, the Joker films will be seen as the greatest collective dissonance of recent years. This playfully toxic phantasmagoria is a good start to getting sober! (2024.09.07)