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wiscon_vidparty, 30 May 2021.
Deepest thanks to metatxt for everything, starting with the song. And to chaila and beccatoria, my Wonder Woman mentors who helped talk this through.
We waited so long for this movie! Many things about it delighted me; some things were tiresome or downright inexcusable. It wasn't really the movie I wanted (the one with a lot less about Max and Steve and a lot more about Diana and Barbara – friends, lovers, mirrors, foes). So I made this vid to fix it.
When Barbara wishes herself into Diana's powers, she becomes Diana's perfect foil. They experience the same reality – most significantly sexism, here – but choose different (perhaps equally valid and equally sad) ways of responding to it. I've said before that one of the superpowers bequeathed on Diana by her origins is that she grew up outside of patriarchy, so she has an ability to not lose herself in it. The consequences of Barbara's wish show us something profound about what Diana achieves and what Diana sacrifices. "Fight it out with your heart."
"[DCEU] has been - from the outset - a take on Diana that she loves the world, it is beautiful, and it breaks her damn heart." beccatoria
"I'm always gonna be here for the idea that what's actually radical and remarkable about Diana is that she does have all this power and strength and immortality (maybe) and superhuman everything, and yet she keeps her empathy and love." chaila
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Date: 2021-06-01 09:27 pm (UTC)uh I'm gonna watch it now, but just had to say that
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Date: 2021-06-02 12:10 am (UTC)