"The Suicide Squad" is a grim portrait of real-life U.S.-Nazi collaboration
SalonNow streaming on HBO Max and playing in theaters, DC's "The Suicide Squad" may have opened to dismal box office numbers, but is drawing praise from critics who point out its unconventional heroics. In the film, antiheroes of Task Force X – or the suicide squad of dangerous, violent criminals selected to take on missions so dangerous as to be "suicide" – form two squads to take down the Nazi science lab Jötunheim and its mysterious Project Starfish experiment on the fictional South American island of Corto Maltese. In "Suicide Squad," Project Starfish is the Nazi lab experiment overseen by the Thinker... and in one of the film's darker twists, is revealed to be funded and led by the U.S. government. A superhero flick with a new villain: the U.S. military "The Suicide Squad" is being called a superhero movie unlike any other, namely for its slate of villains cosplaying as heroes. It's the realness of "The Suicide Squad" that sets the movie apart, and finally brings something fresh to the superhero genre by setting up a new super villain: the actual U.S. government.
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