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When a movie is bad, I tend to just let it be bad. It's hard to make something that's good. Most things are not. When a movie is socially, morally repugnant in some way, however, I feel like if I don't say something, I become complicit to its messages. WW84 is repulsive garbage.
You want to cry "representation" but at what cost? Every single minority in the film AND the woman who is considered to be less beautiful than its star. Her crying about how hard her life is and she wants just one good thing to happen for her? As absurd as it is typical.
We should spend a second on the man who has his body used as a fuck toy for Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor for a while. At the end, decked out and returned to his body, he ignores Diana Prince's dead-eyed advances. Given his wardrobe, I wonder if he's coded as gay. They raped him.
It has the brutal beating of a rapist as the clue that a woman has broken bad. Appalling. What's the message embedded in this? That beating rapists is a bad thing? It suggests that returning colonized land in the Middle East will facilitate the end of the world. Appalling.
And it would have been appalling in the fanatical portrayal of Arab villains even without having an Israeli model and outspoken proponent of IDF as its star. Are you actually kidding me with this? This matters. It matters even if you've told yourself you love it. It's dangerous.
If you want to come in here to say "well, I liked it anyway," you know, I know you liked it anyway. I'm well, fucking, aware of how you're able to compartmentalize your outrage over representation in film. I have a wonderful memory for people who live in that yawning empathy gap.
The overriding message of WW84 is only the beautiful, the powerful and the wealthy should have their wishes fulfilled. Every single thing that's wrong in the world can be traced to the belief that a small percentage of "elites" should make decisions for everyone else. Disgusting.
All that to say that even if you just said "Hey, I like movies that treat minorities and 'ugly' women this way" I would respect it more than the "It's so uplifting! The hero we need!" Well, I don't know "need", but it's certainly the kind of "hero" we've had the last four years.
Before you ask, yeah, I liked the first one okay. Terrible script, lovely direction. https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2017/06/wonder-woman.html
Muting this now. I don't even want to hear it at this point. Fuck this movie. Merry Christmas.
