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Joker (2019)
Sadly Joker is overrated - all style and little substance.
I was anticipating this movie and loved the trailer, but Joker just doesn't live up to the hype. The movie is inconsistent, shallow and boring. The script is very weak and the directing is poor.
Joaquin has a few good scenes but his character is not consistent throughout the movie. Joker came off more as an intellectually limited and mentally ill loner who snapped because of extreme abuse. This type of character could not become the Joker who is supposed to be a criminal mastermind.
The cherry on top of this mess is the ambiguous ending. I'm not even a comic book fan, and I think this movie should not have been called the Joker.
I would give the Oscar to the Joker's marketing team.
El Hijo (2019)
The ending is clear
The movie was watchable and the acting was good. There are a lot of clues throughout the movie that help you fill in the motivation of Sigrid. It reminds me somewhat of the theme of the Boys from Brazil.
The final scene where Julietta looks into the lab indicates that Lorenzo was right and that there was indeed another child. It also shows that Sigrid is still continuing her biology experiments in a secluded house in the woods, since the hose from the outside indicated that there was still a lab in the basement.