Cineanalyst The kinky sex stuff and the piggybacking on the success of the superhero movie "Wonder Woman" (2017) deservedly draw much of the attention for this, "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women," which was controversially advertised as the true story behind the creation of the Wonder Woman comic books, but they're also part of its playing with ideas of reality and fiction and the role of deception and fantasy in both worlds.Almost every layer of the movie and even the outer-world of it, in our world, is about these ideas. There's the concealment or lack thereof of a polyamorous relationship, bondage and role-play sex, the ideals versus the reality of the politics of sexual and gender rights and roles, the use and confusion of sex in psychology and the spread of ideas, including in the creation of a fictional comic book supposedly inspired by real things. There's the invention and use of the polygraph, which is usually presented in media as an effective lie detector, but which in reality is quite faulty and often inadmissible in court. The straps of the device in the movie recall the ropes used in the bondage role play by the trio, which in turn become Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth.Quite a few ironies manifest from all of this layering, too. There's the daughter and niece of radical feminists and proponents of birth control but raised by nuns who ends up a homemaker after an unplanned pregnancy from a married man. There's the social scientists whose objectivity is compromised by their sexual desires, their ideas repackaged in picture books sold to children. And so on--even the fictional movie itself sold as "based on a true story," aimed to capture some of the success of the comic-book movie and itself criticized as being untrue.I like these kinds of movies largely because their analogous to a fundamental dichotomy in cinema between being a neutral recorder of reality and a subjective instrument of illusion. My main complaint with this one is that it largely bypasses this issue in its own presentation, as yet another "based on a true story" movie, rather than examine the tension between truth and fantasy. It does this fairly well with the comics within, but not with film itself. Had it done so, presenting itself as part fantasy rather than a straight "true story," I think it also could've helped with the production's defense against criticisms that it plays loose with the facts of the historical people it depicts. The movie's plot device of Dr. Marston narrating the movie via his interrogation, indeed, offered an opportunity for an unreliable narrator, but I suspect the filmmakers were, instead, mostly ripping off the structure of other movies, such as "The Imitation Game" (2014) (although the interview plot goes much further back to, at least, the more-complex "Citizen Kane" (1941)). Yet, even the movie's supposed failures, whether in cliché dramatics (the interrogation, a fist fight, burning books, etc.), truthiness, or at the box office, are interesting because they're part of the deception and fantasy, within the movie and without.

Andres-Camara No lo sabía la verdad. En lo que estaba inspirado Wonder woman. La película es entretenida. Pero no llega a ser una gran película. La ves y te la crees, pero ya está.Imagino que muchos dirán que ya que el comic se basa en eso pues están justificadas las escenas de sexo, pero a mí me parecen largas.Los actores están muy bien. Todos sin dejar ninguno.La iluminación está bien, pero no consigue hacer una película especial. Y la iluminación por las ventanas es muy fea.El director, la lleva bien, sí. Pero poco más. No coloca la cámara. Aunque por lo menos no aburre. Para verla, enterarte y olvidarla. I did not know the truth. In what was inspired Wonder woman. The movie is entertaining. But it does not become a great movie. You see it and you believe it, but that's it.I imagine that many will say that since the comic is based on that because the sex scenes are justified, but to me they seem long.The actors are very good. All without leaving any.The lighting is fine, but can not make a special film. And the lighting through the windows is very ugly.The director, he's good, yes. But little more. Do not place the camera. Although at least it does not bore. To see her, find out and forget her

rogier-86785 This movie is a highly original love story that is surprisingly subtle given the unconventional nature of the relationship and family life of these three people. In their love for one another they laid the seeds for the best modern day fictional power woman known to us. But that is really not the core of this extremely well crafted film. This wonder woman is not so much a force of feminism but ultimately something greater: a force of love and truth that conquers all. It includes all of love's concepts and translates them in an almost perfect visual language. The film casually marries all kinds of psychologically fascinating questions by showing us what love really means and does to us, even it is not the 'standard' family structure or missionary position. And it does so with surprising ease. This leaves a film that is emotionally captivating from beginning to end. It has all these concepts and questions... but it just wraps them all firmly in that loving blanket. You really feel the affection between the main characters. You can almost touch it, that's how good the directing and performances are. It doesn't try to tell us what love is, it just shows us onscreen. And the result is the extraordinary Wonder Woman, reminding us that nothing is ordinary about true love.

TxMike I watched this movie at home on DVD from our public library. While it is "based" on a true story there is a large part of it fabricated by the writer/director as her interpretation of what might have happened among the family.It starts in the 1920s, Luke Evans is Professor of Psychology William Marston. Rebecca Hall portrays his wife, Elizabeth Marston. He has a student, a pretty young girl of 22, that starts to work for them, she is Bella Heathcote as Olive Byrne.Much of the story has Professor Marston inventing the lie detector which isn't really accurate, he invented the blood pressure cuff. But this story portrays them using a lie detector as a vehicle to get to the truth of their complicated relationships.They are portrayed as a family of three, not just a man with two female lovers, but also two females with female lovers. Together they had several children. It is presented that Wonder Woman was inspired by his two women and that he wanted to give young girls a role model that would help them realize they had options and powers also.Regardless of the truth presented in the movie it is factual that after Marston died relatively young the two women remained together until Olive died. So there was something there. Altogether a very well-made movie and regardless of the actual relationships Marston really did invent Wonder Woman and the comic books featuring her.