The Suicide Squad

In September 2021, I watched the film The Suicide Squad at Movix Kameari. The American movie was released in 2021. I had not watched Suicide Squad released in 2016, so I had thought that I should have done it before. However, I had heard that I could have enjoyed myself doing it without previous knowledge, so I did it with no preparation. I recently knew that it was the 10th installment of the DC Extended Universe, DCEU.

The story depicts the Suicide Squad, a special force formed by DC Comics villains under the control of the U.S. government, to carry out a mission. The squad is dispatched to an island country in South American and fight fierce battles.

The flick is full of comic and violent action scenes with too much gore. It is light, stylish and hard-boiled. What an entertainment masterpiece! I was really captivated by how Harley Quinn played by Margot Robbie violently fight after being tortured and how she bites an apple and viciously smiles at the squad leader.

One week later, I watched the film again at United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo. I was glued to Margot Robbie the last time but I was fascinated by not only her but also some other characters, especially a shark man named Nanaue and a rat charmer called Cleo for the second time. I was amused by Nanaue, a hybrid of a man and a shark, who is a terrible creature always trying to eat human beings but is kind of endearing because it listens to Cleo, moreover, I liked Cleo, if anything, I preferred rats that she controls. Seeing the rats standing by the squad fighting a giant enemy, I felt that the toughest living things are not cockroaches but sewer rats on earth. Although I did not like the phrase "I want to be beautiful like sewer rats" in the song "Linda Linda" by the Japanese rock band The Blue Hearts, yet I have redefined my idea of the stanza a little looking at the rats in it. I still do not regard them as beautiful but I think that they have the right of living and look cute depending on how to look at them.