‘Birds of Prey’ review

let’s forget it existed suicide squad. If something memorable remained of all that, it was the appearance of Magot Robbie incarnating Harley Quinn, becoming the real focus of attention within a cast plagued by mediocre male figures. Now the actress has the opportunity to make amends and take her character to a new dimension thanks to a film in which she is the real protagonist along with a group of charismatic women who surround her to show that together they are capable of causing an earthquake in the superhero movies.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) could work perfectly as a counterpoint to the joker by Joaquin Phoenix. Down with transcendence and long live chaos. Hasn’t that been the characteristic that has always best identified the couple?

In reality, the film directed by Cathy Yan symbolizes much better the concept of anti-system that Todd Phillips boasted so much about without the need to use underlined messages, simply embracing anarchy as a constituent nucleus, both at an ideological and structural level, so that the narration proudly embraces deconstruction and creative freedom through a constant and addictive mad romp in which there is no place for order and in which delirium tremens, fantasy and glitter fireworks beat in all their dimension. confetti.

Of course, there is also a place for the feminist message, but without sobering rants. The women in the film fight to free themselves from the shackles of men and the stigma of their protection with fury and daring. And it is not an easy battle, social structures continue to constitute an insurmountable barrier, that is why the only solution is an alliance between all of them. Thus, the film follows the different itineraries of each of them separately until the final merger. They are all somehow oppressed by the patriarchal system: Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) will have to face his psychopathic boss, Black Mask (an Ewan McGregor who gloriously recovers his most thug record), Renée Montoya (Rosie Perez) is never recognized in the police force to which she belongs, her fellow men keeping her merits, while La Cazadora (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has taken the path of revenge since a mobster organization murdered her family (attention to the tarantinian flashback). As for Harley, she will have to prove that she doesn’t need to be under the Joker’s wing to get by on her own.

Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) it resembles a fairground show (in fact, one of its most brilliant set-pieces takes place on that stage) in which there is room for acrobatics, somersaults, antics and the illusionist display of light and color. It’s a self-conscious pop circus show that has the virtue of adapting better than any movie in a long time to the language of comics, using the vehicle of the mainstream to inoculate the seed of madness.

For those who want to enjoy true girl power in a rogue, imaginative and colorful show.

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DATA SHEET

Address: Cathy Yan Distribution: Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Pérez, Chris Messina Original title: birds of prey Country: USA Year: 2019 Release date: 07-02-2020 Gender: Adventure Script: Chuck Dixon, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Christina Hodson Duration: 109min

Synopsis: After parting ways with Joker, Harley Quinn and three other heroines (Black Canary, Huntress, and Renée Montoya) join forces to save a young girl (Cassandra Cain) from the evil crime kingpin Black Mask.