I'm not passionate in movies so I wasn't affraid because he made entertainning funny movies before this one. And some editing elements seem to be missed, but perhaps are they just out of a step because the main character is.
From the first image I was amazed by the lights by the colors by the framing, what we call "the photography", are incredible.
And what a city! Dirty, disgussing, this is not a stage like we used to see in movies, we can see a real city, fishy, a dormitory city where neighbors fight and piss in the elevator. I don't know if the exteriors were all filmed in real districts or in very meticulous decors.
That much that some sequences needed staging (for example the riot scenes) seem fake like shooted on a false scene as the lights and materials feels less true.
The story is in the same spirit!
In the 80's (see Burton's movie) you would have the absolute evil you had to throw a high-ranking gang chief in an acid bath. Nowadays you'll have the same result by throwing a no-one into the society.
In fact, this is the part I'ld have wanted stronger: Arthur Fleck without this a handicap (he's laughing when stressed). I mean the whole movie would have been stronger if the hero were an average Gothamer, in a hard life, plummeting before cracking his gears. Perhaps this would have inspired too much people who have the same kind of bad life than the character?
A great movie to see, and now it is no more in theater, to see again!
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