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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It is our duty as citizens of the world outside USA to get on our knees and give a blowjob to every f**ng Yankee we will meet as a "thank you" for we live in the world we live in today...
Expectation: shameless nazi-propaganda filled with hateful messages
Reality: 1936 Olympics highlights...
Okay, this movie doesn't teach you important lessons on human condition nor is it realistic in any way. Those who will critisize it for being too predictable and characters for being cardboard stereotypes will have a point. Agree. Yet if Sight and Sound would ever want to look for an equivalent of a pop music hit song in film history this one here should be a contender. Free, unapologetic, vibrant and engaging. Constructed purely to be catchy and full of joy and energy. Not more not less... But you know, at the end of the day it's just an opinion.
As a movie based on an iconic character of an iconic universe it had pretty much one simple goal-create an origin story. And it delivered, let's get this straight. Unfortunately most of the scenes also had one simple goal- to get us into Joker's camp. Therefore we watch him being abused, laughed at, humiliated and neglected only to somehow be able to justify his actions. Nothing wrong with that either but it made Joker slightly two-dimensional character (on the other…