Suicide Squad

Release Date: August 5, 2016

Starring: Will Smith as Deadshot
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
Jared Leto as The Joker
Common as Monster T
Jai Courtney as Boomerang
Jay Hernandez as Diablo
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc
Cara Delevingne as June Moone/ Enchantress
Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
Karen Fukuhara as Katana

Directed by: David Ayer

Written by David Ayer based off the comic by John Ostrander

With the world left without Superman there are a log of questions. One of them being whi is going to protect Jump City now that he is gone? Amanda Waller has the answer. She is looking ti create a task force of the worst Super Villains and use them to secretly save the city. When the biggest villain they have seen is the one she created she is looking to the rest of the squad to save her and the city from doom

This movie is one of the biggest movies to come out this summer and for a good reason. Yes, it's one of the comics made into a movie, and yes, it was well advertised and the whole world is now wiped into seeing any super hero film. This movie is great because it really looks at what it means to be good, what it means to be evil, and what power comes with the to. What are the reasons for your actions on the "side" that you choose. Do you really choose a side or does the power overwhelm you?

Power is a strange and mysterious thing, Viola Davis's character really empowers how powerful that need for power is. At the beginning you side with Viola. You understand that if there was a bad superman that we would be screwed. That we don't have any way of  protecting ourselves from an invasion if someone with power was out to destroy us. Her idea to create a team of bad guys to help to keep the city safe in secret. She likes being in charge and she likes having someone to boss around. She is large and in charge. There isn't anything that she can't get done, and won't do to get it done. It's all for her benefit of being seen. For her to be the one who gets noticed and gets the glory of saving the day. Yet, through all of trouble that she goes through to get the team together she creates one of the worst enemies that the city has ever seen. Then she starts to realize that what she was trying to work for, the glory, the prestige, the power was all for something that backfired in a few hours.

The power isn't only with Viola Davis, it lies with almost ever single character in the film. The Joker is the next one who has the big power problem. His power search is one that is more of a controlling nature. He isn't looking for the glory or honor. He is looking to be the only one in charge. He power struggle has taken in one the "evil side" because it was a lot easier to scare everyone into being controlled instead of working to get everyone to look up to you. You have even a different force for power when it comes to Deadshot. He is looking to be the most powerful gun for hire in all of the city so he can give his daughter a better life. His ex-wife is not raising her really at all and he wants to do right by her but he doesn't know another way to do it.

Then you have the big question as to weather or not you are born into being "evil" or "good". This is actually a much loaded question because all of the things that we experience in the film really question the motives behind all of the actions that the character does. We find through just watching the film that all of the character are not all good and they are not all evil. Everyone has a little bit of heart to them and a little bit of evil. Viola's need to be the best makes her moves questionable. Like holding a woman hostage so that she can use the power inside of her. Manipulating a soldiers heart so that he falls in love with the woman so neither one of them can leave her side for her own purpose. Where her intentions seem to be good her motives are bad.

All of the bad guys go through this question of what is good and what is bad through the whole movie. they start out hating the world because of "what it did to them". They think that no one really gave them a chance at proving themselves, or they already but them in a box because of who they are associated with or what they believe. Deadshot is constantly having to prove to the thick headed Flag that he can be more than he is. Flag is under this impression of Deadshot that he is not as good as they say he is. Yes, he can hit targets that stand still but he isn't capable of doing more. When Flag insults Deadshot's worthiness, by saying that Deadshot can't fight he is a cut and run kind of man, Deadshot saves the soldier's life by proving that he is just as good at fighting as he is at hiding in the shadows and shooting. Flag over the course of the movie sees that he didn't give Deadshot, or any of the others, any credit to what they can do and what they fight for given the right circumstances.

The Joker even has a little good in him.... well what I mean by that is he has a heart. I know that this Joker in the movie is not like the one in the comics. I know that his and Harley's relationship is much more complicated in the comics that it is in this movie. So, what I am saying about the Joker here is strictly based off of what I saw in the movie.  The Joker has heart for one person in the world, other than himself. That is Harley Quinn. She if literally the only being that can lead to his undoing here. When he asks her if she would Live for him he wants to know that he can control her. What she says yes she jumps into this giant vat and he walks away. It's the only time in the whole movie that you see him question a move that he makes. He thinks for a moment about leaving her there to die (because she can't swim) and changes his mind and goes in after her. He does this know that he is saves her the world is soon going to know that this is the only person he cares enough about to make him change his course of action. That he would do whatever it takes in order to keep her safe. That is why he keeps her close through that whole movie because when she is not near him he knows that she is his one weakness and he doesn't want anyone to have control over.

As much as the movie is entertaining it does raise give you a lot to think about. Movies, and the wold for the most part, want to tell you that there is a strict line between good and evil. Once you cross that line either way there is no going back. However, that I not what the movie shows at all. This movie shows that there is actually a lot of gray area of what is good and evil. What is worth gaining power on, and what you want power over. It's not a black and white as we wish it could be. It also shows that what is "right" and what is "wrong" mean different things for everyone based of what they believe or have experienced. It shows that given that right circumstances we as an audience cheered for the bad guys. Something that many of use "would never do in real life" we cheer for them. We cheered when The Joker didn't die, we cheered when he found his love and "saved" her. We were happen when the serial killer Deadshot got to be with his daughter again. We were happy when Viola Davis, the "good guys" mind you, got her ass handed to her. This movie goes far beyond what many superhero movies have done and given a reason as to why the bad guys are the way they are.

There is not line between good and evil, it's just  your beliefs are.