Spoiler alert, read with caution.
At the heart of Wonder Woman 1984 is the price it pays.
The opening meeting of the Paradise Island Movement is a comparison of the cost of following the truth and succumbing to lies.
Little Diana cheated in the race to cut a shortcut, and could have reached the finish line first, but was caught by Antioper and could not win the championship.
She couldn't understand why Antioper stopped her, shouting that it was not fair, and was anxious to cry.
The audience knows that this is precisely because of the fair principle of competitive sports, but Antioper describes it as a more mysterious "truth".
It's a play that sets the tone —
The price of yielding to lies is faith, joy, and even life, even if you get it.
The price of obeying the truth is that if you break the rules, you can't laugh and walk to the end.
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In the movie, both the positive and negative characters get their own greedy and unrealistic wishes from the wishing stone.
Diana's lover Steve, borrowed the body of others to be reborn, which was like a mirror flower moon.
Barbara gains strength and charm, imposes changes on her body, and distorts her mind.
The power and money that "Trump" red viper pursues is a poison that corrodes a person's wine.
The more easily one's desires are satisfied, the harder it is to give up.
That's why the movie has a precious scene, Diana and Steve's farewell.
No matter when, what story, the separation of lovers can always touch the heart, this is the audience's empathy for loss, love makes this emotion more profound.
This is the only moment in the film that moves people's hearts.
In superhero films, this is a very fatal problem.
Other than that, the end of the movie, which should have been a traditional pro-negative battle bridge, ended with Diana's preaching.
Some people say it's an anti-climactic design, but I think it's something that has to be done.
In the play, this is the last stroke to complete the sublimation of the character image, after making a choice between small love and big love, Diana's character arc reaches its peak, which is the growth of the role and also gives her the power to solve the crisis.
However, solving the crisis purely with a large paragraph of literary drama is still cowardly due to imperfect design.
In any case, Wonder Woman 1984 is a sci-fi action film, and even if you want to show the collision of ideas, you can't avoid the action design problem.
Thanos is a collection of extreme ideas and explosive combat power, and is the absolute core villain, and there is no second villain that can distract the audience from him.
Even if the double villain design, like "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", lets the little green devil and the electric light people have enough superpowers to match Spider-Man, the ending will not become lengthy and boring.
Even in "Batman Wars", lex Luthor, who has no combat effectiveness, runs through the film with a scheming and scheming image, and most importantly, even if he fails, he is not inspired by justice.
The story can continue, and the emotions are still delayed.
Lord, played by the red viper Pedro, is purely the embodiment of desire, without the slightest combat effectiveness, and even regrets his mistakes in the end, and the crisis is lifted.
The abrupt end of "Wonder Woman 1984" makes people lose the motivation to continue the story and explore emotions, the world is united, peaceful coexistence, everyone is repenting, and a peaceful and prosperous world.
In today's super British narrative is so diverse, such a reunion ending, I don't know how many audiences can be satisfied, anyway, I am not satisfied.
2.
Wonder Woman 1984 is a sequel, and if you compare it to the first one, it looks a lot like a mirror image relationship.
In the first part, the goddess of Paradise Island descends into the world, but the love dou has to be forced to accept life and death.
In the second part, the heroine who is integrated into the human world relives the old love, but finally wants to bury the love with her own hands and say "I will not love anymore".
It looks like a insistence on love, but also a stripping of humanity.
From God to Man, and then from Man to God, the two films form such a relationship chain.
The problem caused by this is that the final foothold of the film is to rely on Diana's divine sensibility to summon the world and resist evil desires with pure truth, goodness and beauty.
The reason why truth, goodness and beauty is true, good, and beautiful is of course because this is the shining point of eternal human praise, but once it becomes a slogan, a trend, it becomes empty.
Cruelly, its preciousness stems from its cherishing.
Therefore, the world where everyone is good will only appear in fairy tales.
"Wonder Woman 1984" made the movie into a fairy tale, and once again blurred the audience's image of the heroine.
At the beginning of the movie, Diana holds a mantra lasso, fighting crime like Spider-Man to save the citizens, and also swinging around like Spider-Man.
Subsequently, Diana appeared in the museum, incarnating as an elite white-collar worker, and hiding like Superman.
Saving the world is a matter of course, and personal pursuit is the rebirth of a loved one.
Where is Wonder Woman?
The newly upgraded weapon armor is still the face temperament that makes women fall for it.
Learn to fly or not be afraid of electric shocks.
Diana and Barbara the Leopard Girl should have been antagonistic, and in the end it was only the opposition between image and concept, and the film portrayed the female image of the perfect goddess in pursuit.
When Barbara's wish became different, the attitude of the men around her changed one hundred and eighty degrees, from indifference to appreciation.
Is this a mockery of men, or a definition of women?
James Cameron said after the release of Wonder Woman in 2017 that Wonder Woman was a materialized character image.
At the time, film director Patti Jenkins responded that tough women can be great, but beautiful and loving women can be, and powerful women can be multi-faceted.
There's no problem with saying that powerful women can be either Sarah Connor or Diana.
But in the second part, the definition of a powerful woman should not be further explained.
Barbara made her wish to make herself special, and finally vanished.
No one criticized the direction she was pursuing, it was just that there was something wrong with her approach.
Barbara's direction is Diana, a powerful, beautiful female figure.
There is nothing to blame for this, but in the movie, the only two female protagonists in the whole film, there is no essential difference, barbara even after losing the goal of Diana, she became a leopard, which limited the film to the expression of feminism.
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The story of "Wonder Woman 1984" takes place in the United States in 1984, and the Cold War crisis and oil wealth are the key words of the times.
These keywords have a uniform classification, desire.
The president of the United States wants more nuclear bombs, and the Egyptian oil tycoon wants to restore the dictatorship, which is the entry point for the film to shine into reality.
Desire is not good or evil, and uncontrolled desire brings unpredictable costs.
But the opposite of greedy desire is by no means no desire.
It is precisely in this way that the ending of the movie will appear to be too illusory and too idealistic.
Wonder Woman is the embodiment of the ideal and perfect, she does not have superhuman identity cognition problems, there is no Batman's mortal dilemma, to tell her story well, we must let her come to the human world and give her a wonderful villain.
In short, it should not be the man who has been enchanted by his son and enlightened by his son; nor should he be a leopard woman who cannot go up and down.
Wonder Woman 1984 has a deep and universal proposition, but after watching it, I didn't feel it or care.
The reason I don't care is that I care about whether the two ships will explode at the end of The Dark Knight, and whether Rorschach can survive at the end of Watchmen.
The reason why I didn't feel it was precisely why I felt something about Wolverine 3 and the end of Avengers 4.
For the evaluation of "Wonder Woman 1984", here, to borrow the four words that Barbara said.
Wonder Woman, who is "high above", may never have come to the human world.
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