But it’s still worthwhile spectacle, and it accidentally introduces what may be the movie’s actual narrative core: the idea that women are continually expected to compete against one another.Įven as Wonder Woman 1984 sets up this potentially accidental thesis, it remains a sequel - it has to play within the confines of a previously established modern world where the writers want superhumans to be a relatively new concept.
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Her combat mentor, General Antiope (the ever-fabulous Robin Wright, in a role this movie never bothers to identify by name), tells her she cheated and can’t be counted as the winner, which might have landed better if we’d been told any of the rules of the competition. Diana is still pre-pubescent, but she’s winning until she gets cocky, sabotages herself, and has to find an alternate path to victory.
The Amazons are competing in a form of athletic challenge about honoring a golden warrior.
By setting this sequence during Diana’s training, they establish her character, let us gaze in joyful awe upon the majestic, leather-clad Amazons, and satisfy the need for spectacle in a film that’s otherwise surprisingly visually restrained. It opens centuries ago on Diana’s home island of Themyscira, both to deliver a moral that the movie never fully pays off, and because the filmmakers understood that much of their potential audience would be furious if they didn’t get to see the island again. (The movies have left it unclear whether she’s slow-aging, à la the comics, or actually immortal.)įor a film that focuses on a superhero living in the past, and judges her for her separation from the world around her, the narrative of Wonder Woman 1984 is suspiciously in love with that same past. Setting this film in 1984 places the action before any of the other big DC movie heroes are active, so there’s plenty of work for her to do. But she’s still Wonder Woman, with powers beyond those of normal humans, and the attendant responsibility and feeling of duty. This version of Diana is very alone, by choice.
More than 60 years after his death, she’s still in deep mourning for him. She’s also lost her love interest, Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), who is quickly established as the only man she ever loved. She’s an Amazon in Man’s World, and she doesn’t seem to age, so of course the friends she had in Patty Jenkins’ 2017 hit Wonder Woman, set during World War I, have grown old and died in the decades since she first met them. The new film neatly sets up many of the interior conflicts for Diana Prince, played again by Gal Gadot. It’s just about impossible to describe Wonder Woman 1984 to someone who doesn’t already know the greater DC movie universe.
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