Released in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the second installment of Wonder Woman’s adventures did not suffer the same fate as its predecessor. Of course, there is a context of health, but Patty Jenkins’ film was also criticized by critics and the public and did not come out with the same enthusiasm as for the first part.
All this adds to the controversy that the director probably did not expect. This controversy is about one of the events that allows the return of the previously deceased character, Steve Trevor, played by Chris Pine.
When Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) touches the Dream Stone, she realizes that the artifact can grant her greatest wish. He then chooses to return his great love. An ex-soldier is resurrected in the body of a famous stranger – played by Christopher Polaha. Only Diana can see Steve Trevor. From an external point of view, the stranger seems to be “bewitched” by the artifact.
After that, the controversy started. The barely-released film is being singled out by some viewers on social media, who are criticizing the script for glorifying dissent.
Five days after the film’s release, director Patty Jenkins is responding to the controversy. He doesn’t formulate a detailed response, but defends a simple post on X (Twitter) in which a fan defends the film’s choice.
The opposite user explains that Wonder Woman 1984 uses codes body swap – An Anglo-Saxon term referring to the fact that a character switches bodies with another – the better to condemn him. “Patty Jenkins plays with this code, deliberately pointing out the nature of the problem these films are meant to avoid.“, he writes. For example, he even cites a great one with Tom Hanks, in which a 12-year-old child possesses the body of an adult man.
First of all, he recalls that the movie states that if the wish is revoked, then the entire spell is revoked, meaning that the male victim is no longer affected by the spell.
Wonder Woman 1984 is available on Netflix.
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