• Film

    New Trend: Romanticizing Abusive Relationships

    A new image has surfaced of an alternate scene from the recent blockbuster Suicide Squad showing the Joker exerting dominant body language and scolding Harley Quinn during the helicopter escape. The image reinforces the abusive relationship that the Joker and Harley hold in the comics, but that was controversially downplayed in the film in order to cater to a broader audience. Although I found the film entertaining and well cast, it did not seem like anything more than the most basic of basic superhero films. The fact that I had to type superhero bothers me, because this should have been a film about villains fighting worse villains, or at the very least antiheroes, but because of…