It is a good movie, I must admit. The idea that there is (are) God(s) behind the evil and good things that human beings contemplate and do is great, to begin with. Zeus, Arius, Diana, and all the Greek mythology gods. So it was about Zeus created the world and saw that all good, humans are good too. But one of his son, Ares, planted envy in human hearts, so they start to envy each other, hate and kill each other. Therefore they become more and more evil.
It is interesting that she doesn't surrender into 'politics', 'diplomacy' and all sort of'big adult talks' that make you less care about humans' lives, real people, real faces, not statistics on papers, or the 'greater good' reasons: help one wouldn't matter, sacrifice one for one million -thingy - that I always find it hard to take into my mind, but apparently there is the psychology behind it. "We can't save all lives", or "We can't stop this war unless we use strategy" and let some people die instead..because some lives are more valuable than others, and worth more to save than others, are indeed pragmatist in tones. But then I think, it is wonderful indeed to be a wonder women: having power to slew the logic and exercise MY OWN power instead, to stop the talk, the diplomatic talk, the nonsense talk, the talks that the longer they take, the more human lives are at stake.
Then suddenly I remember Jesus, the Son of God, the King of kings, who lived on Earth about two millenia ago, who also easily carried away easily by compassion toward the most despicable one: Matthew the tax collector, or the vilest ones: the lephers, or the weakest ones: the women who bleed and the children. He lookeds into their eyes and have compassion, the love that doesn't endure by time, by others, by circumstances, by pressures, love that is constantly giving, constantly flowing out, like a living fountain. The Man who once said "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth", and not 'blessed are the contender because they get all the power on earth'.
And then I remember the talks in the midst of power encounter between Diana and Ares, between lightning and thunder and blasts and darkness, Ares that advocate to kill all the men and start a new beginning, a new world without hatred and without wars, "a new world peace", and Diana is tempted to follow his advice..then in the last minutes she realised that to do so, means to swipe all humanity from the Earth, kill them off all. Suddenly the prospect doesn't seem to be that enticing anymore to her. And she said: no. Why that I feel the resemblance with the event when Jesus was tempted in the mountain by the devil? "If you worship me, I will give this earth, this beautful earth, for you". And He wasn't tempted, just like her. The Bible did not mention the detail, about what was in his mind at the time He contemplated the temptation, but perhaps, the imagination went like 'Maybe, just maybe, I can skip the cross, this way...'. But he didn't, because He remembers (remember the future, yes, because He doesn't quite work in time as we know), what happens when human lives are not redeemed by His death. It is His real battleground, the Calvary, not that, in the mount Olive (sic).
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