More than Super

Rating: 7/10 (5 May 2019)

Diana begins a hopeful believer in humanity's essential goodness and a despiser of Ares' violent mind-control-like influence over them. As she fights the Great War, she inspires humanity to rise up and be their better selves but is eventually confronted with the fact that humanity is not the essentially good brotherhood she thought it was and Ares' influence is far more devious and subtle as well.
The questions at the heart of this film are "Will Diana despair when faced with reality," and "Is humanity, with all it's dark impulses, worth saving. This struggle is so much more relatable than watching Superman try to beat up another strongman who is going to enslave humanity.
Diana empathizes with dying soldier's and comes to the rescue of small villages instead of flying past dying civilians and toppling building by throwing bad guys into them. She sees how evil men can be and is brokenhearted, not angered. She is a hero that wants to end war, not wage it.