{"id":1035,"date":"2016-07-11T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:57:44","slug":"wonder-woman-gal-gadot-dc-comics-patty-jenkins-female-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Wonder Woman and the Loss of Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

B<\/span>elow <\/p>one<\/a> of the YouTube trailers of Wonder Woman,<\/em> lies perhaps my favourite comment ever: \u201cIs this what guys feel like when they watch male superhero trailers?!?!?!\u201d The comment is in equal parts innocent and heartbreaking, descriptors which can easily be attributed to Wonder Woman herself.\n\nSomewhere near the 1 hour 20-minute mark of the film, on her way to the front line of war, Gal Gadot\u2019s rendition of the Amazonian princess gets tired of the ambivalence shown by her fellow travellers toward loss of life and destruction of property, and decides to fight an entire army to save a village. Her inability to understand the concept of \u201cFor the greater good\u201d baffles her spy friends; one of them exclaims, \u201cWe can\u2019t save everyone.\u201d\n\nWonder Woman doesn\u2019t care though. She, unlike the rest of humanity, hasn\u2019t yet normalised insensitivity. It\u2019s similar to what happened when we asked our parents why can\u2019t we too fly, and then were explained that we must play by the rules and cannot go about flying. Wonder Woman doesn\u2019t understand why she must wear \u201cproper clothing\u201d when they could be easily torn in time of war. She\u2019s mystified when Chris Pine\u2019s Steve Trevor lies to his boss, and is confused by the slave-like deliverables of his secretary. Heck, she can\u2019t even ask Steve to lie down next to her without him telling her that they have ignored steps leading to people \u201csleeping together\u201d.\n\n\"wonder-woman-story_647_060217041438\"\n

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The current state of our minds though, if an alien like Wonder Woman were to observe, would be of a people lost in their ways.<\/p>\n

Courtesy: DC Entertainment Inc<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n\nThis realisation, this feeling of smallness in front of her inhibited wonder, dawned upon me when it hit her too after she killed General Ludendorff, that one man isn\u2019t the reason for humanity\u2019s moral corruption. We keep thinking that we want to do some good but are chained by constraints created by other men, money, gender, and privilege. Like when I was young and na\u00efve, and asked my father why\u00a0 people with big houses and big cars do not give some of their money to children begging on the street.\n\nThe story of Wonder Woman<\/em> then, is the story of mankind\u2019s innocence lost \u2013 our submission to the uselessness of war and the futility of structure to fight corruption. Like a high tide, this washed over me while Wonder Woman screamed looking at the night sky. I wondered what would happen if all of us retained our innocent filters to look at the world, if all of us hadn\u2019t normalised insensitivity. It seemed like a radical idea to me, so my mind traversed toward a far more logical one: What would happen if Wonder Woman were to come to our current world?\n\nWould she understand modern religion? What would she say about caste? Would she read books on peacock sex, or would she read about science? Would she be bothered that Indians care more about declaring new national animals even as most of the country goes to bed on an empty stomach, or would she rally with gau rakshaks and kill the innocent? Would she be declared anti-national? And if she too, like our police, would run over<\/a> a 60-year-old woman and her three grandchildren while trying to save a cow.\n\nI was reminded of the end of Terminator Salvation<\/em> (an underrated film), where Marcus Wright, half-terminator, half-human, has to decide where to go. As he decides to give his heart up for a transplant, he asks, \u201cWhat is it that makes us human? It’s not something you can program. You can’t put it into a chip. It\u2019s the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.\u201d This sentiment sits opposite to what Plato once said, when he described men more simply as \u201ctwo-legged animals without feathers\u201d. Many have tried to decipher what Plato meant by feathers, and if it was a metaphor for something greater. The current state of our minds though, if an alien like Wonder Woman were to observe, would be of a people lost in their ways. Perhaps Plato really only meant \u201cfeathers\u201d.\n\n\"wonder-woman\"\n

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The wonder of Wonder Woman is that she\u2019s an innocent human first, a demigod second, which lets her see how crappy things have become for us.<\/p>\n

Courtesy: DC Entertainment Inc<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n\nWonder Woman hasn\u2019t given up though. Near the end of the film, tired of the destruction, she speaks of love as a cure for everything. She doesn\u2019t understand our normalisation of insensitivity, and actively rejects it, implying that empathy, then, is the superpower we all have but don\u2019t use, as we prefer to see gods do our fighting for us.\n\nThe wonder of Wonder Woman is that she\u2019s an innocent human first, a demigod second, which lets her see how crappy things have become for us. Perhaps it\u2019s time for us to put our innocent human costumes on, see whether we can be wondrous too.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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