Wonder Woman - a review
By Natasha K
No Man’s Land… because no man has ever been able to cross it. No man, but that one woman brave enough to defy the odds. As she ascends the ladder you can see Wonder Woman signifying the climb of several women across history overcoming their obstacles.
This and so many other scenes drip of the feminist symbolism that Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman so beautifully displays.
Filled with beautiful imagery and CGI laden action scenes, Wonder Woman is a funny, wonderful yet earnest thrill ride that manages to tell a beautiful story with symbolism just as much as words. Every time Diana steps up to save her male colleagues, when the Amazons defend Themyscira, we are reminded how strong women really are. In addition to that, the scene in which Trevor takes Diana shopping says a lot about women’s fashion and functionality.
Also comes the lesson that a war is never one person’s fault. There are many players in this game of blood and death. Blaming one person for the world problem never solves anything. That there is no pure or evil but that the world is a layered, grey place. That in every good person there is a dark side.
As the biggest single day gross for a female directed movie and having the highest rating for a superhero movie on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes (93%), Wonder Woman highlights the need for female directors in the action adventure genre and cements its name in history a revolutionary milestone in cinematic history.
Cleverly avoiding the sexualizing of the many strong female role models this flick must offer, instead turns the “Damsel in Distress” trope on its head by making the damsel into a man and the hero a woman that so screams, as Beyoncé once so adequately put, “Who runs the world? GIRLS!”
