The Clown is a feature film directed by Todd Phillips and starring joaquin phoenix. On August 3, 20 19, it was released at Venice Film Festival, and on August 4, 20 19, it was released in the United States. It topped the North American weekend box office with $96.2 million.
The clown is a super villain in American DC comics and Batman's number one opponent. The Clown is an independent film composed of clowns. It tells the story that Arthur, a comedian who was in trouble in 1980s, gradually went to a nervous breakdown and started a crazy criminal career in Gotham, and how he experienced social destruction at the bottom of society and gradually blackened into a clown. Some people say that "there are no clowns after Heath Ledger", but joaquin phoenix, the actor of the clown in this movie, broke the spell. His performance of the clown is very penetrating, which makes the world marvel at his acting skills!
Gotham city is cold and desperate. The humble Arthur Frank (Joquin Phoenix joaquin phoenix) plays the clown in gotham city. Arthur is a young man, and his mother who lives alone with him suffers from mental illness. Arthur deeply remembers his mother's teachings and laughs at life no matter what setbacks he encounters, but he is under great pressure and is on the verge of collapse. Arthur has been suffering from mental illness, and some of his behaviors are beyond his control, which makes him a laughing stock from time to time, and these taunts are very inappropriate. He has no real friends, let alone an outlet to stabilize his negative emotions.
He has been paying attention to the lives of two people, one is TV talk show host Murray, and the other is a young single lady Sophie who lives in Arthur's apartment. He expressed some short-term goodwill to him, which made Arthur enter the stand-up comic industry. He dreamed of becoming a talk show actor, but life let him down again and again. Not only that, he accidentally lost his job, caught a glimpse of his mother's secret, and ignited his eager desire for his father he had never met. Fate once backfired. In the empty subway, the sad clown committed suicide in uncontrollable hysterical laughter.