Joker

Arthur Fleck works as a party clown in a deteriorating Gotham and hopes to become a stand-up comedian. Social services, employment, family responsibility, public humiliation, and his uncontrollable laughter steadily intensify his isolation.

Lawrence Sher's grimy widescreen city, steep stairways, crowded transit, Hildur Guðnadóttir's descending cello, and Joaquin Phoenix's emaciated movement frame Arthur's performed identities as an accumulating bodily crisis.