Joaquin Phoenix is immense in this role, truly mesmerising and disturbing as a psychopathic victim of society, who has slid down to rock bottom.
The film delves into the character of this poor unfortunate and it explains how he ended up as a killer taking vengeance on those who beat him down. You can't help feeling sorry and pity for this abused guy who still carries aspirations and muddles fantasy with reality. It is shocking and disturbing and probably tells a million stories of those who wander around in an alcoholic stupor or descend on a downward spiral of hard drugs to briefly escape their world, ultimately leading to waste and oblivion. Shocking. Be kind to people folks, be kind to everyone you meet, you will never know their back story and it can be a better world if we do this.
The film delves into the character of this poor unfortunate and it explains how he ended up as a killer taking vengeance on those who beat him down. You can't help feeling sorry and pity for this abused guy who still carries aspirations and muddles fantasy with reality. It is shocking and disturbing and probably tells a million stories of those who wander around in an alcoholic stupor or descend on a downward spiral of hard drugs to briefly escape their world, ultimately leading to waste and oblivion. Shocking. Be kind to people folks, be kind to everyone you meet, you will never know their back story and it can be a better world if we do this.