can be borne of rejecting the status quo that declares one type of person to be more valuable than another. And, it is a female character that is showing it to us.

It is not a perfect film, and there is criticism to be rightly made of the way in which women of colour are included. While crowd shots of the Amazons indicate that a notable number of black, Asian, and Latina women are ably filling the roles of both warriors and Senators, this representation is still lacking when compared to the way in which characters of colour appear in the comic book source material. For example, the characters of Philippus and Artemis are present in the movie (played by Ann Ogbomo and Ann Wolfe, respectively) but their level of visibility does not reflect the vital role they have played in the actual origin of Wonder Woma...

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