The villain hero Joker distorts our compassion.
Joaquin Phoenix, who has to retire from time to time, once again contributed a god-level performance with "Joker".
I still remember that in the 2013 sci-fi film "Her" directed by Spike Jones, he was still a melancholy uncle, with deep eyes full of mystery and loneliness, a person who talked to himself and fell in love with Scarlett Johansson's sexy voice (the voice of the computer operating system).
Joaquin Phoenix is particularly adept at playing the role of extreme solitude, which is different from the loneliness of "Her", "Joker" Arthur is not a character tragedy or the influence of future technology, but a tragedy of innate fate.
In the past, the clown's film and television image was thin and one-sided, mostly fierce, crazy, exaggerated villain roles, or became a horror symbol, or became a villain symbol.
He appears as a functional character, and can even be said to be a charismatic villain, but lacks a "human" level.
The horror film "Joker" is a direct bloody stimulus, the Fellini documentary Joker is an artistic totem that should not disappear, and the Joker in "Joker Returns" is the cause of the missing child, and it is a direct reflection of the shadow of childhood.
When Todd Phillips directs Joker, it's more like a prequel to Batman: The Dark Knight, letting the audience know how the clowns who don't ask for money, fame and fortune, and who make explosions and massacres are raised?
The Joker, played by Heath Ledger, has to do is to make the public reconsider human nature through chaos and fear, and he will force Batman, who never kills, to stain his hands with blood.
The Joker, played by Jacqueline Phoenix, serves to expose the causal chain of his extreme evil deeds, and Arthur is a "deformed product" under the two-way persecution of a deformed family and a deformed society.
And Jacqueline, a talented actor, has undoubtedly become the "Joker" itself, making "no clown after Heath Ledger" a false proposition forever.
Jacquin's 47 pounds loss caused the body to take on a real deformity and pathology, isolating himself to penetrate deep into the mental world of the mentally ill, and together with Arthur, he was crazy, twisted, out of control, and completely collapsed in "Joker".
Arthur the Clown is a congenital tragic villain, a victim of child abuse and social abandonment, an illegitimate child of the mother's spiritual fantasy world, a talk show "actor" dominated by wild laughter, and a psychopath who can only have a little happiness in fantasy.
He is not funny but delusional to spread laughter, he maintains elegance but is always looked down upon and ridiculed, he just wants a little love, but he does not get even the slightest bit of kindness.
In my opinion, it was Joaquin Phoenix who propped up the R-rated movie "Joker", and if you talk about merit, it is a highly fitting film music.
The most impressive scene is a few dancing scenes, under the appropriate music, it is a thin and deformed shell that slowly has a process of vitality and vitality, dancing out of order but with a strange beauty, violence and mirroring make Arthur realize his "essence", and the pleasure of living comes from the carnival of killing.
The anti-authority and anti-hero "Joker", trying to embark on the road of self-redemption is fruitless, seeking help from public figures and authoritative figures is fruitless, relying on parents to give a little care without results.
From repression to forging into a real clown, Jacquin tore himself at least into arthur, the fantasy Arthur and the clown "three characters", so he played more than three characters, tearing each other apart and seeking a way to live.
The Joker's job is actually to kill Arthur, who struggles hard in the rules of society, and become the "villain" who tramples on the rules.
That's why, knowing that the Joker is a demon, we can't help but sympathize with him.
His complex and cruel life, the fierceness of struggling to survive, and the disillusionment of dreams of love and affection are these external and imposed persecutions that have led him astray.
In short, brushed "Joker" twice, and the screenshot was cut to the soft hand.
Every frame of the shot, every big close-up, laughing, dancing, and makeup in different situations, Jacqueline Phoenix contributed a kaleidoscopic and long-lasting performance, saying that every pore and every wrinkle of his mouth is acting.