6.5 is quite disappointing, it may also be the gap caused by the too high of the previous.
First of all, extra points are added to the actors' acting skills, photography and soundtracks. These three items are undoubtedly at the upper-middle level, and the acting skills can be said to be very good. But the whole movie is illogical. This film feels like not just that the director doesn't know how to write a good story, but that he doesn't know how to write stories at all. The main line is not clear at all. The whole story is basically that the protagonist sells miserably all the way, is oppressed all the way, and finally feels that he has to take revenge on the society.
A lot of places are simply illogical, take a gun to a children's hospital? I don't know how the director came up with this plot as the breaking point. It's unreasonable, ridiculous, and disgusting. If I were the boss, I also think it would be appropriate to fire him. Some say it was Randall who framed him. But that has nothing to do with him taking a gun to the children's hospital, right?
Many settings are strong and lack convincing. The first is that laugh, the appearance of basic laughter, are the elements that promote the development of the plot. You say this is a disease, but it happens every time? (I still want to praise Joaquin's acting skills here.) After that, because the clown killed a few people, the clown was treated as a symbol by a symbol? If this is the case, then MLM will be rampant everywhere and no one can judge right and wrong?
The director has publicly stated that he wants to reveal social phenomena in this film. I personally think that it has achieved a certain effect, but in fact, killing eight hundred enemies and self-destructing one thousand. Can't even tell a story, let alone take on the role of a taxi driver. First of all, the protagonist's setting is a patient, and we can clearly see that he also has paranoia. With such a special identity as a starting point, the universality is lost in the first place, right?
Secondly, it highlights the lack of respect in this society, the class problem. (Even turning Thomas Wayne into a villain for that...) But the way he does it, it's a failure. The director shapes the environment through the tragic experiences of people like Arthur. But this kind of misery is shown in the movie as: being used as a joke; being called a freak; being beaten; two turns of life and feeling that I have been deceived by the world.
To be honest, aside from the physical damage, I think people are actually hit a lot more mentally than this. To evaluate Arthur with the words in the movie, I think it is: "Too self-pity." Arthur's lack of respect in his mouth, in my opinion, is actually because he has done nothing but was laughed at. In other words: "Glass Heart", "It's not me, it's the world that's wrong." It's just that Glass Heart doesn't usually kill people just because of a few words. This kind of misery is too far-fetched and lacks obvious external and internal causes. I'd say Arthur did it all himself at the Children's Hospital.
I don't know if the director really thinks that just a few miserable stories can get the audience's sympathy. But I think this clown is too failed. This is all about evil for the sake of evil (to cater to the public tendency?) Nolan's Joker is the representative of evil, and the Joker and Batman can also be said to be both sides of evil and good. But in the end Batman won, which is good. But what about this movie? Purely dark for dark's sake.
Therefore, I feel that this film is excellent in terms of actors and soundtracks, but is completely poor in terms of theme, script, and conception. The look is extremely bad. Maybe Joaquin's acting can be on par with Nolan's Joker. But the difference between this clown and Nolan's is more than two levels.
If this film wins the Oscar for best picture, then I think people should really reflect on whether we are really moving towards the truth, the good and the beautiful, or are we going backwards.
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