Birds of Prey is a glitter bomb of missed opportunities GlobeArts
I know it’s pointless to review the film they didn’t make. But underneath this clangy, pounding, speedy, thin, energetic confetti-shower of a movie is a collection of missed opportunities begging to be noticed.
Good set-up, right? So wouldn’t it have been great if the women behind this film – screenwriter Christina Hodson, director Cathy Yan and producer Robbie – had made that anger more explicit and meaningful? If they’d developed it into an idea, like that violent female anarchy, freedom from all decorum, is a valid response to centuries of misogyny? Instead, we get scattershot hints that feel like feminist afterthoughts.
Sionis’s sidekick, Victor Zsasz , certainly hates women. Near the end, he bears a chestful of scars and announces that each represents a woman he’s killed. So why haven’t we seen that happen? Why is it just tossed off?is that Harley, severed from Joker’s protection, is now the target of the many people she’s wronged. As they come for her, the slight she’s done to each is scrawled onto the screen.
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