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The thing that hit me most about this movie was the way it nuanced good and evil. None of this 'them vs us' or 'black and white morality' that we've been seeing lately, with the narrative skewed towards the POV character's moral compass.
Diana is characterised as naive, but she's not stupid. She's portrayed as an innocent about 'Man's World', but she's not an idiot. And in the midst of mud and blood and mustard gas, she holds to what she believes - that Man's World is still worth saving.
And in the end, she swivels back to that (yes, with the love of Steve who goes down in a plane saving his city...but the story's not about him this time, so he stays dead).
There are tropes they had to get through - "you're a man?", his nude bathing scene, 'sleeping together', dancing.
I liked how they at once dismissed the Ares mythology and then made him real - very clever. I can't say I didn't see it coming, but there were several options when they made the German general the stalking horse, and my next candidate was the guy whose face I recognised.
Incidentally, they needed to shave David Thewlis for the Ares-fallen scene. Because that 'stache might have been apropos 1918, but it was ridiculous in A Time Of Antiquity. That was probably my biggest wince. (I know; shush.)
The Amazons were beautifully portrayed - very female and feminine in all the ways that our gender separated society generally won't acknowledge: tough and enduring, hard and encouraging, proud and with that touch of arrogant certainty - and that farewell by Hippolyta? BRUTAL.
There's a lot more in here, but I'm tired and I really need to go to bed. UGH. Sleep is clearly something that I am never going to get again around here..
Diana is characterised as naive, but she's not stupid. She's portrayed as an innocent about 'Man's World', but she's not an idiot. And in the midst of mud and blood and mustard gas, she holds to what she believes - that Man's World is still worth saving.
And in the end, she swivels back to that (yes, with the love of Steve who goes down in a plane saving his city...but the story's not about him this time, so he stays dead).
There are tropes they had to get through - "you're a man?", his nude bathing scene, 'sleeping together', dancing.
I liked how they at once dismissed the Ares mythology and then made him real - very clever. I can't say I didn't see it coming, but there were several options when they made the German general the stalking horse, and my next candidate was the guy whose face I recognised.
Incidentally, they needed to shave David Thewlis for the Ares-fallen scene. Because that 'stache might have been apropos 1918, but it was ridiculous in A Time Of Antiquity. That was probably my biggest wince. (I know; shush.)
The Amazons were beautifully portrayed - very female and feminine in all the ways that our gender separated society generally won't acknowledge: tough and enduring, hard and encouraging, proud and with that touch of arrogant certainty - and that farewell by Hippolyta? BRUTAL.
There's a lot more in here, but I'm tired and I really need to go to bed. UGH. Sleep is clearly something that I am never going to get again around here..
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Yes, that's such a good point -- there was a simplistic view, of the Evil German General as the big bad; the truth was thematically much, much stronger: that there is good and evil in all of us, and it depends on what we believe, and what we fight for then.
Yes! I had to stop reading the Percy Jackson books, because Percy is such a dunce; I cannot deal with dumb characters, or characters who have trouble grasping the realities of their world. Diana is not such a character -- she's new, sure, but she gets it.
Hey, I LOVED THAT SCENE. But I'm v. fond of The Pine, so there's that.
Mmh. They were A+mazing.