Valiona
Since: Mar, 2011
06/23/2021 00:00:00
You need to add a body to the review, ideally one that succinctly explains your points but goes into as much detail as possible. Is it possible your review got lost due to an error?
CatcherInTheWry
Since: Feb, 2015
06/25/2021 00:00:00
Nope. I\'ll do that though.
Valiona
Since: Mar, 2011
06/25/2021 00:00:00
It\'s good to see an actual review there, but I still have a few suggestions.
- Split your review into paragraphs to make it better-organized and easier to read.
- Try not to include so many spoilers you have to spoiler-tag half the review.
- Try making the review more about whether you would recommend the work to others and less about specific plot elements.
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Delightfully Chaotic and a rush from start to finish.
Wonder Woman 1984 genuinely got and kept my attention. It wasn't just about solving a problem, it was a consistent escalation from the minute Barbara wished to be like Diana to Maxwell Lord solving the wishes of the world. Oh, man, all the characters start out one way, and the movie just bides its time sticking it's foot a little deeper into the pandemonium, and a little deeper, Barbara a little less stable, Maxwell a little more ambitious...That mayhem. It started and it just didn't stop. It was delicious. Pass the Popcorn. Maxwell was interesting to me he's not an empty husk of evil but at the same time, even with his backstory, he's too...slick to be truly tragic. But what makes Maxwell Lorde's tragedy works is that it's not just a sob story to make you feel bad for him, it was a really horrifying look about you get to see it in vicious detail, the father, the bullies, and the movie doesn't use his pain to justify his actions but instead Wonder Woman uses his pain to talk him down from his actions and I think it actually works. The movie ends simultaneously fairly easy on him, but still has him get on his knees and admit to the one person he actually cares about that he is a horrible, disgusting jerk who screwed up royally, which is immensely satisfying. Some have accused wonder woman of being preachy, but I'm forgiving that because we actually see her struggling with that on two fronts. One, the opening shows her cheating at a competition and getting called out for it by her mother and her aunt, which gives her credibility when she repeats that same lesson later. And then she has to give up Steve again... So, in conclusion, is the moral of the movie "Don't be selfish?". No. The movie shows us that Wonder Woman's wish for Steve needs to be reversed to save the day. Could anyone call Wonder Woman's grief selfishness? Barbara's wish was born of immense longing and admiration for Diana, and the poor girl felt really the opposite of that from the way she was treated.Even after the wish she was far from Diana's enemy at first. Rather, I think the real moral of the movie is "everything has a price". The price for Wonder Woman reviving Steve is that an innocent's body is taken from him. The price for saving the world is giving Steve up again.The guy who wishes for a woman to drop dead in the heat of the moment has his wish granted. Young Diana is told in the beginning that hero status is something you have to work for. The dreamstone works by tricking someone into wishing for something and taking something else away as payment, but duping them into thinking they could have something without payment. This is something that you need to read between the lines to find. It's OK to want things But you need to think carefully about what to do and give up to get those things. You need to think carefully about what you really want, and what you really need.