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They really had a scene in Wonder Woman where Gal Gadot saves four kids playing soccer from getting hit with a missile. Are they out of their fucking minds?!
If you're not fully understanding why this is so...grotesque. In 2014, four young boys were killed by an Israeli mortar strike, while playing soccer on a Gaza beach during a bombing campaign that Gal Gadot was vocally supportive of.
Yes thank you for the correction. She did not save them from the missile. She used the missile to save them.
This is not the part that matters. What matters is the white savior fantasy, where she's benevolent to the simple Arab children, which is the opposite of reality.
This is not the part that matters. What matters is the white savior fantasy, where she's benevolent to the simple Arab children, which is the opposite of reality.
People trying to fine-tooth comb the distinctions here are missing the point.
It’s not JUST about those four boys...
Superhero films have very specifically become extensions of US/Western military propaganda...
It’s not JUST about those four boys...
Superhero films have very specifically become extensions of US/Western military propaganda...
...the US and it’s allies have inflicted an enormous death toll on various countries in the Middle East, killing hundreds of thousands of children. To pose WW and by extension the U.S. as a SAVIOR of these children is cruel and dishonest...
...one cannot separate the story, as fiction, from the real world in which we inhabit. If for no other reason, the US government plays an active role in using entertainment to help mold its image....
...the fact that the circumstances so eerily match that of the shelling that killed four children is all the more twisted. Especially since there is a personal connection between the actor and that series of events.
You can have an endless philosophical argument about young Gadot’s choices during her life in Israel, but regardless the cinematic choice here is at best insensitive; at worse, it’s cruel
