Wonder Woman Worth the Watch

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2018)

In this movie, the two main characters are Diana and Steve, who are played by Gal Gadot and Chris Pine. You go through a journey with Diana, who ends up being the superhero, Wonder Woman. Steve, a war pilot who crashes into the Amazons land, Themyscira, only to go and meet Diana. They the go on an adventure with her to find the god of war and defeat him. Themyscira is the land of just Amazonian's, and they have never seen a man before. This leads Diana and Chris to learn more things about each other, and the "relationship" they have.
The theme to Wonder Woman, in my thematic idea, is that Diana is finding what her purpose is and how the world works. Another movie that shares a similar theme would be another superhero movie like Thor. I say this because when Thor comes to Earth, he was expecting humans to be different than what he thought they were. As you go through the film, Diana
knows exactly what her mission is. She is constantly talking and looking for Ares the God of War, and she is fearless when it comes to defeating him. It puzzles other characters in the movie when Diana is wanting to be in the war and acting like a warrior , mainly because she is a woman and she does not fit the social norm of the time period they are in. Since the theme was her figuring out how the Earth really works, Diana finds out that mankind is more trouble than she had thought. She does not understand why men start wars and why the politicians are too cowardly to fight with their men in the field. Wonder Woman uses lighting the most when it comes to getting the theme and the feeling of the scene across. In the movie, you can see how bright and beautiful Themyscira was. Then cut to the Earth, to see a dark and gloomy setting. Since there's a war going on, the film shows the scenes of a country that's been ravaged and affect by it. The characters have a scene where they walk through the trenches and there you can see how the filmmakers used color. While Diana is in the trenches it is very gloomy but when she comes out to cross the enemy lines the lighting looks almost inspirational. This is a huge point in the plot, because Diana is seeing who the enemies are and seeing that the God of War is not someone she can fight. When Diana climbed out of the trenches, the setting showed a different light. It shows Diana hitting all the bullets away, and the lighting shows a hero. The lighting was the best way to display the overall feel of the time period.
Another technique that Wonder Woman used was angles. I like to say that the angle was a huge part of the movie mainly because of an intense scene, which was Diana running across enemy lines. The filmmakers really utilize the angles in this scene mainly because the angle is different when you see Diana running to the enemies. Different angles were used in a variety of scenes throughout this film. Another example of this is from the beginning of the movie, there was many scenes of the women warriors. They were fighting on horses and jumping from them, the angles of the camera really impacts the emotion of these fight scenes. Wonder Woman was full of excitement with emotion, and certainly worth the watch!