This movie caught me by complete surprise
i really cannot say this movie was bad, because in terms of acting it was impecable.
i cannot say the dialogs were unsettling, because they were natural
The story written makes it worse, because in this movie he is not a psycho that gets increasingly mad and a cult leader. He makes a movie about a man becoming a simbol, and refusing its own title, making him hated by the good and the bad.
You can also notice that, discretely, the movie makes some very eerie jokes.
"Even after you spent years in jail with perfect behaviour, avoid trouble and not harm anyone, you sometimes wont get a second chance because of vengeance disguised as justice. "
"The current legal system does not consider a threat someone who orquestrates your death throught legal means, but will consider you a threat if you try to protect yourself."
"There is no punishment for those who rape criminals, but there is if you confess your sins and desire to become a better person."
"You may like the attention of being a celebrity, but what they love is not you, but what they think its you"
"Sometimes people will say they care about you, then expose the most intimate details about your life to the public while calling you insane, humiliating you in national television"
I thought this was a remake of the villain, a new way to interpret his evil in a more realistic and humane way. I was expecting batman, scarecrow, penguin, all of them to be slowly introduced just like how it happened in sonic movies.
And then... he gives up. Not because he thinks its impossible, but because he saw he was not the only one being affected. He heard a guy trying to defend him verbally, only to be strangled to death. He starts to question if people loved him as Arthur Fleck or as The Joker.
Hell, this movie doesnt even seem to be a sequel to the first, it seems to be an "possible bad ending" for the joker.
I understand why people hated this movie, but i cannot bring myself to rate it out of ten because its too unique to have an comparison.