She Is Wonder (Spoiler Free Review)
Wonder Woman is taking the world by storm right now, and once you’ve seen the film, it’s not difficult to see why. She has arrived at a particularly poignant moment in the social consciousness, through a very creatively driven film during an era where most films are laughingly noted for their lack of creativity. She is a powerful anomaly. The movie is constructed in such a way where it’s digestible for first time viewers, or for fans harking back to the Lynda Carter days and beyond. Wonder Woman, Diana, is an Amazon- the warrior race of women created by Zeus himself amid an ambient pantheon that most of us know loosely by name if nothing else. Hera, Athena, Aries, Hades, Mercury… all gods from your everyday mythology, all part of the dynamic legacy that is Wonder Woman. And they delivered it to us! It wasn’t stuffy like a librarian dissertation, it wasn’t skewed to the erudite, it wasn’t dumbed down for the uninformed; it hit that sweet spot of enticing engagement...