more time and one podcast to digest, and at the risk of understatement i must reluctantly conclude it is the most profound and staggering cinematic experience of the year, a superlative commentary on alienation and urban capitalist decay, a meta-textual statement on the joker as cultural totem, a window through which we may look at ourselves, to find only ourselves gazing back, eyes darkly alight with haunted mayhem.
7.5/10