While a good start to moving forward we are not quite there yet

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2018)

While I love a good superhero movie it is obvious that females are under represented in this entire genre. Yet, with the introduction of Wonder Woman it appears that this issue has been swept under the rug. Don't get me wrong from the perspective of someone on the outside this movie is generally pretty good. It has the action and it presents the backstory and makes the viewer leave wanting more. But, throughout all this it also has a woman represented as strong and powerful, the central theme to her own story. Contrary to this the woman is being overly sexualized wearing a leotard and really it is quite pointless. I mean think about this movie during filming Gal Gadot was pregnant and doing her own stunts for crying out loud. Yet for some reason they edited her to be just about the smallest little waist you can imagine. This is not needed to further the story-line and in my mind is the opposite of empowering. The movies plot is driven by a man and the movie itself it the ideal unobtainable reality. The movie does very little to empower real women. It rather reinforces these unobtainable hypersexualized ideals often found not only in super hero movies but throughout Hollywood.