Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)

Professor Marston was an interesting man. A professor of psychology, a noted feminist who lived with his wife and another woman together. He was responsible for an important element of the lie detector test and he created Wonder Woman all before dying at a relatively young age of 53.This film depicts how the creation of Wonder Woman was linked between his polyamorous relationship from the late 1920s between his Manx born wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) and their alluring research student Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote) who was the daughter and niece of radical feminists but was actually raised by nuns.Marston (Luke Evans) himself had ideas that would be deemed to be deviant for the times. He had an interest in bondage, domination, submissiveness as well as the living arrangements with the two women, elements that bled through the Wonder Woman comics.The story is framed through an interrogation of Marston by Josette Frank of the Child Study Association of America who is appalled as to what is being shown in the comics and how this might relate to Marton's own lifestyle.The framing device of the inquiry was clumsy. It did rather mirror the McCarthyism that will soon become all too real a few years later. Heathcote brings the right blend to her character. Inquisitive, vulnerable, sexy and willing to open her mind to new experiences. Hall came across as too brittle and angry. I could never see Oliver falling for Elizabeth. Evans brings some smoldering Welsh temperament to his Marston, passions burning underneath just waiting to ignite.The film was rather uneven, apart from the comic advisory board inquiry, the part where they are caught in their relationship by a neighbour and its aftermath was horribly done. Marston's own family have been critical of the events depicted in this film.Director Angela Robinson is not as daring as she makes out to be. The film is rather vanilla than kinky, the narrative tends to get awkward too often.

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

Brilliant writing and directing. The acting is to be as praised as well. I do not know how much of the actual truth is presented in the movie, but it was a very smart portrayal of how wonder woman came to be and what she has represented all alone

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.