Joker (2019)
- Release Date
- October 2, 2019
- Director
- Todd Phillips
- Cast
- Joaquin Phoenix , Robert De Niro , Zazie Beetz , Frances Conroy , Brett Cullen , Shea Whigham
- Runtime
- 122
- Main Genre
- Superhero
- Writers
- Todd Phillips , Scott Silver
- Tagline
- We live in a society
- Website
- http://www.jokermovie.net/
Summary
Directed, co-written and produced by Todd Phillips, Joker is an origin story infused with, but distinctly outside, the character’s more traditional mythologies. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. Longing for any light to shine on him, he tries his hand as a stand-up comic, but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty and, ultimately, betrayal, Arthur makes one bad decision after another that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty, allegorical character study.
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