Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Movie • 2020 • Action
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Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
This movie contains 43 potentially triggering events.
Harley's pet hyena appears to die, but she only ever says she "can't find him", implying he might still be alive. At the end of the film, she actually does find him, and he continues to be happy and healthy.
Not in the film, but there are references to Harley having forgiven and returned to the Joker previously. Breaking from this cycle is a major component of the plot.
Joker throws Harley out of his place near the beginning and while we never see him onscreen, Harley continuously refers to the abuse in their relationship. We also hear Cassandra's foster parents yell at each other while she sits on the stairs.
The primary villain is constantly manipulating people into saying he hasn't done anything wrong, he doesn't deserve to lose things he steals from others, etc. It is more preemptive than gaslighting normally is, as no one is given the opportunity to criticize him, but his script is likely familiar to those who have experienced emotional abuse.
There is a very brief jump shot (about 10 seconds) showing the interior of an illegal exotic pet store where animals are seen in a backroom being kept in cages much too small for them to move around, this mistreatment can be considered abuse. But no violence is shown towards any animal.
there is a taxidermy beaver, if that counts, but beyond that (minor spoilers........!) an animal is not seen for some time after an explosion, but is shown alive and healthy eventually.
There isn't explicit discussion of rape, but there is on screen sexual harassment, assault, and a sexually aggressive kidnapping attempt with a corresponding fight scene.
Very graphic during the torture scene, but it's slow so you can safely look away if it becomes too much. There is nothing sudden that will take you by surprise.
A man is hung upside down and tortured to death in a graphic way in front of his wife and daughter. The wife and daughter are also killed, but their fates are left offscreen. The entire scene includes them all crying and screaming.
A scene show a family getting s**t and there a kid present so they get shot too, but we don't really see it. A man is asked to kill a teenager, but we don't see it either.
At the very start there is a scene at a club and Harley is getting drunk then after a few shots of her drinking she is taking a woman’s purse and throwing up inside of it
But there is a LOT of plot relevance around deficating. If youre sensitive to details of that I would watch with a friend who has already seen the film :)
A character is heard straining off-screen as she poops. A big plot point is her passing a diamond she swallowed, but we don't see her actually pooping.
Harley jumps on mans legs from above and breaks them.
In the club scene, this can be seen coming so if youre paying attention you have time to cover your ears.
A main character is a cop, yes, but her coworkers are presented as incompetent and misogynistic. At the end of the film, they quit their job and joins the titular group operating as a vigilante
@sor The scene with the blowdart takes place when they get to the abandoned amusement park, about five minutes in. Also the needle in a tattoo gun is shown briefly (about 2 seconds) as a man's face is tattooed.
A character says the numerous scars on his body represent each person that he's killed, indicating that he's given them to himself as twisted "badges of honor". But they're all healed wounds.
Harley, Roman and Zsasz are not mentally well and are violent. In the movie it's mostly Zsasz and Roman being VERY violent but Harley also breaks legs and fights a whole police department.
No anxiety attacks but I think Harley Quinn almost dissasociates after being slapped and she ends up in a musical number in her mind. The transitions between being in and out of that musical moment is very reminiscent of dissasociation.
There's no body dysphoria but a (cis) woman has to wear a shirt that mentions "my balls" after her previous outfit is dirtied and there's a joke about a presumably cis man allegedly having no "eggplant emoji" (penis).
Maybe not, but: Towards the end, a number of people slide through a tunnel slide, but they slide fast, and the tube has a pretty big diameter. Restraints: Throughout the movie we see people bound/strapped/taped to chairs (and a toilet) or hung from a horizontal bar by their feet.
I don't know why there is a yes vote, I think that was an accident. There aren't even any mentions of one so if that yes vote is putting you off from seeing the movie, know that it was probably an accidental vote.
Renee has an ex-girlfriend and the intro briefly shows Harley having relationships with women, but their sexuality is incidental to the plot and none of them die.
in a group of people surrounding harley in a song scene she bites a black man's hand, who is the only black person and shys away from the group. he does not die.
The villain, already raging, thinks a woman in the bar is laughing at him. He then threatens her with a weapon, makes her strip and dance on the table. There’s no music. She’s crying. Everyone in the scene apart from the villain is clearly horrified but out of fear do nothing to stop it.
Harley is temporarily. After the Joker throws her out, she is seen walking in the street for awhile. She is also homeless again when her apartment is wrecked.
The most graphic scene is the torture one. In the whole movie we see a few body parts or things like that but nothing too intense. The most blood we see is from people's mouth after getting shot or the torture scene. This last one is not long, but it's a little gross honestly. I'm not sure if explaining it would be a spoiler.