Wonder Woman

A Great War (World War 1); battles won and battles lost, millions dead and millions more bled. With this movie comes a new understanding of how it all followed through to a blazing end. Where the scorn of a god meets the humanity of a goddess, the power play is shadowed by duty and empathy – duty to save the earth from its people and empathy to save earth’s people from themselves.

Wonder Woman (played by Gal Gadot) before becoming the secretary that is Diana Prince, always had an insatiable thirst when it came to blows and bows and I’m thinking maybe it’s because it had a milder effect on her than it would on you and I. Notice in the battle between the She warrior and the god of war (played by David Thewlis), who, undoubtedly, was very generous with his pounds and clouts (I mean – he was just nasty), she managed to sustain a total of zero scars on her face. 

Gods don’t bleed! I remember thinking to myself, concluding “battle scars” are just a bit overrated. Or maybe it had less to do with her being a god warrior and more with her being a female actress. 

As we all know – ladies look their best without the fist mark on their faces and I’m sure Hollywood figured that out as well.

I really enjoyed the romance and the drama of it. The fact that she was able to project the image of a fierce and driven warrior who could still fall to the weakness that is love. With the literal crashing in of Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine) came the promise of an adventure that would lead to Diana’s transformation from naïve warrior to inspiring hero. Notice the mild touch of comedy centered between these two heroes especially with the introduction of Etta Candy, Pine’s secretary (played by Lucy Davis), which allowed for a somewhat dramatic relief.

Speaking about war, I suppose it’s necessary at this point to state that when arrows and bullets fly, I don’t care who you are and how outrageously accurate your aim with a bow is - bullets. Win. Every. Time. I say this because the turnout of the opening skirmish between the Amazons and the villainous Germans (a reputation Hollywood has done a great little to amend) on the shores of Themiscyra, suggested differently. And really, that bullet must have been pretty lazy for Antiope, Diana’s aunt (played by Robin Wright), to have caught up with it just in time to save Diana (Hollywood must really believe we are incapable of thinking for ourselves). And for a people who, according to Diana, bears “the sacred duty of defending the world”, I’d say they are rather underpopulated for the task, and one may say incompetent considering they lost their best warrior to a bunch of mortal German strays.

This movie, enlisted under the category of both action and science fiction, in my candid opinion is short of an extra class – history fiction. You might want to revisit your history books for this one.

When I think of the character, Wonder Woman, for some reason Captain America pops up in mind. I think it’s the shield! and given the actor involved, Chris Evans, and the actress, Gal Gadot, I’d say these two in a single production would spark chemistry, unlike the kind we’ve ever seen on set (like that’s gonna happen). See ya!!