![]() ![]() These are mere blink-and-you'll-miss-it nods to Prince's Amazonian backstory. Both films contain brief early sequences, told in flashback, where we find a young Diana Prince on her birth island of Themyscira, competing alongside veteran woman warriors in tournaments of Olympic proportions. Wonder Woman (2017) takes place in Europe during World War One, exploring the traumatising effects of warfare on humanity its successor is situated in Washington DC, 70 years later. ![]() Truth-seeking compels us to ask complex questions about history and cultural memory – and relates to the inspiration for Wonder Woman's own origin story. The concept of truth is central to Patty Jenkins’ film, Wonder Woman 1984, the second in her superheroine franchise. ![]()
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