The more I think about the plot the more I am kind of mad at this movie. Wonder Woman being so in love with this guy that there isn’t a single other in 80 years is a weird take for a “feminist” superhero. I’m not really sure there is a person there at all, “Diana” works at a museum and is obsessed with this one guy and that is as deep as she gets. She doesn’t even have any conflicts with her raising or the island she is from or the godly lineage. I just found a serious lack of anything there. In fact the movie spent far too much time on the villains when it could have used more, or at least better, Wonder Woman. At the end of the day she saves the world by telling people to not wish for anything. Kind of a cynical superhero moment imo. Yes it sucks that her wish selfishly killed someone, and Max Lord is a power hungry bad dad cliche, so both used their wishes for themselves. Basically making WW as complicit as anyone else. She is fine with people dying for her personal satisfaction, something we don’t really even see the main villain accept.
The movie tells us wishing is bad, the world uses it for greed. But wouldn’t there be people wishing for others? Not everyone in the planet is as self centred as WW. Certainly there were people who wished cancer away for their family members, or maybe war veterans wishing to have their limbs back, and most certainly starving people in Africa wishing for clean water and food. Guess they have to voluntarily take those wishes back then? Eh?
That’s the problem with the core of the entire plot, it is cynical of people, it thinks everyone on the planet’s wishes would be as self centred as WW and Max Lord’s. In doing that ludicrous ending it portrays WW/Lord as the moral centres of the universe and all the little people are just as corrupt and bad. No people dying of thirst or losing a loved one to cancer in their world. Everyone is a greedy capitalist who wishes their fellow were dead. It is a cynical, nihilist take.
At the heart of it is Max Lord, and I understand the Trump comparisons. To the TDS afflicted Trump is also a liar who has not made his fortune and is a fake and a phoney feeding off people’s greed. Once he gains power I found it funny to see a wall suddenly appear in Egypt, as if they moved the US border wall to the Middle East, something that doesn’t exist in real Cairo, but felt like an out of place jab at Trump. Of course there is the stuff with him taking over as president. Which just got cartoony. Too many shots of him over acting in a blue spotlight. It was like any other superhero movie with a light beam in the sky except it was him.
Overall he was too much in the movie. Instead of more scenes with WW we had to see his constant mugging. Seriously. We had to wait like a full hour after the mall for WW and this mugging cartoon villain took up way too much screen time. Patty tried making a crazy 80s movie but this has too much padding.
In the end, he himself decides to renounce his wish, saving the day, and he never lost anything. So that was anti climactic, the villain just stops behind evil. It never cost him a thing either. That is the odd thing, his kid was so important to him, I thought it was setting it up for him to be taken, since those are clearly the rules as stated by WW. The kid should have died, Lord made a wish, and did not pay for it. Where was the mom? Dude only had his son and the movie let him keep him even though the kid did nothing in the film besides act as cheap sentiment for the ending. It was unearned because even in a world where nuclear war is happening this guys kid is safe and sound and a nosebleed now and then is all that happens. Patty you are a terrible writer. So the movie was not even playing by its own rules with the main villain, whose fault was wanting to make people wish for a better life. Because that is bad. Huh?
Its just... kind of bizarre. It’s a baffling story. It is nonsense. It barely resembles anything in real life. I suppose it’s a good thing she is not writing the Star Wers movie. Yeesh.
