Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse along comes Wonder Woman 1984, a man-hating mess of a movie
Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 4 months ago to Politics
"As for the plot of WW84, it is so incoherent as to be inconceivable. At one point, a tertiary character yells out “What the hell is going on here?!” and I completely concurred with that sentiment. I have almost no clue what the hell was happening most of the time in this movie, but thankfully the characters were so poorly written and dreadfully acted that I didn’t care.
And the film’s politics? If you like white male- hating movies that feel like two-and-a-half hour long commercials for American and Israeli militarism and imperialism, WW84 is the movie for you.
‘Wonder Woman’ succeeded because it wasn’t heavy-handed in its cultural politics. But no such deftness and delicacy is on display in WW84.
The film makes perfectly clear that white guys, with Steve being the lone exception, are unanimously evil. To prove this point, there are endless scenes of both Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) and Diana being sexually harassed by ‘80s guys, all of them white except for the one Asian who is apparently white guy adjacent.
White guys are even revealed as the reason why the film’s main villain, Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) – a Latino – is bad. A flashback shows his villainy being born when he was bullied as a child by – you guessed it – evil white guys!"
And the film’s politics? If you like white male- hating movies that feel like two-and-a-half hour long commercials for American and Israeli militarism and imperialism, WW84 is the movie for you.
‘Wonder Woman’ succeeded because it wasn’t heavy-handed in its cultural politics. But no such deftness and delicacy is on display in WW84.
The film makes perfectly clear that white guys, with Steve being the lone exception, are unanimously evil. To prove this point, there are endless scenes of both Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) and Diana being sexually harassed by ‘80s guys, all of them white except for the one Asian who is apparently white guy adjacent.
White guys are even revealed as the reason why the film’s main villain, Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) – a Latino – is bad. A flashback shows his villainy being born when he was bullied as a child by – you guessed it – evil white guys!"
All Comments
- 1Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.My daddy taught me to drive when I was 9 years old, got my license when I was 14. Helped him roof houses. I've had more male jobs (Exec.Dir. Councilperson, Lobbyist, etc) than I actually cared for.Permalink|
- 1Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 3 months agoOh Lord. Here we go again. The dumb butts wanted equality and gave away the advantage we girls had. Now they are at it again! Aren't people who are not happy in their own skins pitiful? i have never felt inferior to any man.Permalink|