Andrew_Bettencourt

If the first movie was clever and in its way perfect the this one fails at every aspect and its absolute garbage.

Sending a message to all the kids out there watching that might feel alone, depressed or even victims of abuse, that we are alone in this cruel world and we just want the torment to stop, like shooting a horse out of mercy its way more dangerous than a joker that "incited anarchy" in the first place.

Irresponsable at best. Todd Philips wasted a great oportunity to send a moral message after all the abuse and violence experienced in these two movies. Instead, he promoted that we should just conform and give up on life instead of true redemption and repent from not only Joker but all his abusers.

Absolute garbage.

The first all-talking Portuguese film with sound and musical performances. Although sometimes forgotten in time, the film serves as an introduction to what would be known as the Golden Age of Portuguese Cinema. It is a less complex drama - compared to Canção de Lisboa and many other well known classics that would follow - and it´s based on the novel from Júlio Dantas, about the life of a gypsy girl, who is believed to be the first Fado singer and a seminal figure to the musical genre. It shows the most significant aspects of portuguese culture of late 1880s, the social life of portuguese high society, the country side of beautiful Lezirias from Ribatejo, with the Portuguese bull and Lusitanian horse, but most importantly, it tells how the popular music called Fado was born, setting a very specific tone in portuguese cinema about fate, melancholia and a sad longing we call "saudade" that would be explored for decades in film and music.