By Jonathan Cook: For
a while I have been pondering whether to write a review of the newly
released Wonder Woman, to peel back the layers of comic-book fun to
reveal below the film’s disturbing and not-so-covert political and
militaristic messages.
There is usually a noisy crowd who deride any such review with shouts
of “Lighten up, it’s only a movie!” – as though popular culture is
neither popular nor culture, the soundtrack to our lives that slowly
shapes our assumptions and our values, and does so at a level we rarely
examine critically.
My argument is that this much-praised Gal Gadot vehicle – seemingly
about a peace-loving superhero, Wonder Woman, from the DC Comics stable –
is actually carefully purposed propaganda, designed to force-feed
aggressive western military intervention, dressed up as humanitarianism,
to unsuspecting audiences.
