veliseraptor:

thinking about Wonder Woman again today while I was listening to the soundtrack and how much I love the fact that Steve Trevor was a spy – not just a soldier, but specifically a spy – and how much his role, throughout the movie, was to play the cynic to Diana’s optimist. 

and so easily that could have been “the silly, optimistic woman learns that the cynical, rational man’s view of the world is the best one” – because that’s often what we’re supposed to learn. “rationalist man” is the ideal. 

but Wonder Woman as a movie and Diana as a hero explicitly rejects that. her faith, her optimism, is not weakness, and rather than her closing herself off, she draws Steve out. 

Diana steps into the world and cries “that’s not fair” – the answer she’s given, from Steve and others, is “life isn’t fair.” that’s the lesson we’re supposed to learn.

but Diana’s response is “so we must make it fair,” and that’s the ethos of the movie. 

“it’s not about deserve. it’s about what you believe.” she rejects cynicism and resignation, and the movie says that she’s right to do so.