Even beyond the obvious reasons, this must be a tough year for David Ayer. After more than two decades of translating your adolescent experiences into a gritty brand of Los Angeles-based police thrillers, you are forced to spend your 2020 defending your work against what you did and did not do.
First, there were the inevitable comparisons between Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” and Cathy Yan’s “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” and the lack of a strong female gaze in the former.
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