This article includes spoilers about the plot of “The Suicide Squad.”On the surface, “The Suicide Squad” is not a movie with geopolitics on its mind.
Writer/director James Gunn’s hard-r supervillain romp is a loud, bloody, men-on-a-mission riff that owes more to Sam Peckinpah and Gunn’s own zany “Guardians of the Galaxy” than anything with complex historical connotations.
Nevertheless, they’re hiding in plain sight, whether or not Gunn intended them to be there.
Shot in Panama with signifiers that speak directly to its history with military dictatorships, “The Suicide Squad” has more layers than its absurd concept would suggest, even if it reduces them to B-movie conceits along with everything else on the screen.The bulk of the movie takes place on the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese, and while its protagonists spend much of the time battling their way through scores of baddies and one giant kaiju menace,
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