What The Suicide Squad Gets Right About Harley Quinn
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Suicide Squad. James Gunn’sThe Suicide Squadis, to put it simply, a love letter to chaos. It’s not even close to anything resembling a superhero movie as we know it, but rather a trueantiheromovie that revels in the ability to take what are arguably C-list comic book characters and absolutely decimate them in the gnarliest ways possible on-screen. The marketing surrounding the movie up to its release last week was frequently tagged with the slogan of “Don’t Get Too Attached” — reminding audiences that, when it came to the question of any sense of longevity or survival, they should abandon any and all expectations that every member of Amanda Waller’s (Viola Davis) Task Force X was going to make it out alive....