Compared with most of the comic works of Marvel and DC, "Wonder Woman" is smart and profound and very special, which makes it truly break through the limitations of superhero movies at the connotation level. Its breakthrough in narrative posture is very obvious: it discards the emphasis on "superman logic" in other heroic movies.
What is "Superman Logic"? Refers to the "hero values" unique to specific heroes, such as Batman's way of fighting crime and Spiderman's power-responsibility concept. They originate from the hero's "high awareness" of his own "heroicity". Although this can package the hero's personality image, it also opens the distance from the audience: the audience's participation in the hero's moral and responsibility considerations is negative, because it is not easy to empathize, and can only appreciate these with a curious eye." Special contradictions". These stories are often confined to their respective logical scope to complete the task, and the fundamental idea is also "defeating the enemy = solving all troubles."
The Wonder Woman movie is a different kind: Although the protagonist has the notion that the warrior princess of Amazon has the responsibility to defeat Ares and save humanity, the difference is that this time the audience knows that it is essentially a mistake. She faces a war, a "mess" described by a male protagonist, and defeating Ares cannot end the war. This is an ineffective "superman logic". When Wonder Woman realizes this reality and discovers that the real enemy is the human evil itself that creates war, the core proposition of this movie no longer has "hero specificity" at all, nor is it limited to "defeat the enemy and solve troubles." ", but has become a contradiction between the role and "humanity in the universal sense."
This is the cleverest aspect of the film, and it immediately enters the subject area comparable to a large number of non-commercial masterpieces. The key plot here that "the protagonist has a huge question and confusion about human nature" makes the audience's understanding and empathy of heroic morality & responsibility considerations reach a level beyond the reach of other heroic movies. At this time, Ares, who appeared as a boss, has surpassed the "troubles that need to be eliminated", but has become the concretization of the protagonist's "choices that have to be made": should we believe in the goodness of human nature? Without this boss, Wonder Woman will eventually face a choice. In other heroic movies, the whole story cannot be established without a boss. This is the superiority of Ares as a boss: its existence serves the thought rather than the plot.
At this time, the love drama that has been for a long time has realized its maximum value within its possible range: it has become the incarnation of human goodness, and has contributed to the final choice of the protagonist. For the first time in history, the element of love can be so organically integrated with the core of the story in a superhero movie. This ending achieves the transformation of characters, and at the same time the use of the old-fashioned sublimation tool of love is so efficient and reasonable that it is almost unprecedented in superhero movies.
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