Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

The amazing story behind the comic book character Wonder Women which is beautifully and sensitively portrayed by the 3 main actors. If you are in any way a Wonder Women fan this is a MUST see film.

I enjoyed the story about the emergence of Wonder Woman and its direction. I also enjoyed learning about William Marston. The relationship storyline was not believable to me and some of the characters' actions felt contrived.

This is based on an incredible true story about the Harvard psychologist (Luke Evans) who created the iconic comic book character in the 40s. He and his wife (also a behaviorist) enlisted a young woman to be their teaching assistant and the trio ended up living together and co-parenting 4 children. His relationship with these 2 empowered women, their kinky proclivities and his own theories on psychology inspired the Wonder Woman character and her exploits. Of course, the actors in this film are more Hollywood pretty than the real people, but their performances are nuanced and compelling. Even as this fascinating story unfolds, the measured pace and serious intensity made the film more plodding than necessary to do justice to their unique history.

If you would ever wonder how this film managed to become so powerful to the mind, yet has trouble attempting to get a higher score than it has received, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women easily reminds you, although very unmissable at first attempts of watching, why it attempts to purposely fail to earn a higher score.

Of late there have been plenty of stories revealing that Hollywood and the entertainment industry is full of perverts, and this film shows that it has been a cesspool of moral filth for a long, long time.