On October 3, "Joker" was released in the Netherlands, and it was the first day to enjoy the new work of Todd Phillips. I have seen the "Hangover" trilogy directed by Phillips a long time ago. It is also a comedy series that I personally like very much. I am still very confident in the ability of director Phillips to control the scene. With Venice winning the Golden Lion, naturally Expectations are high.
Although the movie is titled The Joker, it also has ties to the DC Universe (mainly Batman). But it's a movie completely stripped of its superhero shell, and you can think of it as a Taxi Driver movie, the same dirty, messy, city sewers, street corners full of smelly garbage, but this By no means a superhero type movie. The story of the clown happens to every urban "mouse" who tries to preserve himself.
The film clearly uses multiple sets of confrontational intentions to create a chaotic mood. From the very first scene, the forced smile and the tears covered with paint reveal the chaotic characteristics of the clown. With the continuous development of the plot of the film, the appearance of decentness that the clown constantly supports is broken, and the tragic and chaotic characteristics of the characters are slowly exposed. During this process, the director and screenwriter were not in a hurry, and patiently laid out many propulsive plots, instead of using fast, stylized routines, and superhero plots. In the second half, as the representative of the chaos in the city, the rationality of the clown moving towards the final chapter is still to be discussed, but it is precisely because of the good foreshadowing before that eliminates the occasional abrupt feeling in the plot, which makes the development of the movie very smooth. Another point I want to mention is the color matching and photography of the film. The strong color palette highlights a turbulent chaotic texture, and a few backlit shots also fully explain the clown's characteristics of wandering between light and darkness. However, for disorder (a mental illness that keeps laughing) and dance as a "prop" attribute, the increase in its use may greatly reduce the intensity of its appearance. If the energy of the movie is regarded as a constant value, perhaps it should be Gain greater energy density with as few "props" as possible, rather than using "props" as an everyday occurrence.
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