Howlin Wolf I like this kind of stuff... Very often, I find the inspiration behind a work to be more interesting than the work, itself.I'm not completely sold on the notion that discussion of hemlines, or the domestic status quo, can be waved away as being 'unimportant', though...Their relationship with each other may have been unusual - and perhaps even trailblazing, for its time - but that shouldn't cloud the fact that, because the creator is male, Wonder Woman still remains at least in part an outlet for MALE desires... Feminists championing a character doesn't automatically make the character herself feminist... and if one professes to believe in 'truth', then it is important that this idea is discussed and debated perhaps more robustly than it is examined by the film!

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.

The Couchpotatoes Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a nice biography, a story worth to be told about the inventor of the lie detector and the creator of the superhero Wonder Woman. I never heared of it before so that was a bonus for me. But there is more to it than just the story about his invention and his creation. It's also a love story, about a love triangle, and about dominance and submission. Nobody would take offence by that now but at that time it was something scandalous and unheared of. I can't see why someone couldn't love more than one person at once and that's what this story is about. Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote are the actors playing the characters of the love triangle. Good-looking people and that's the funny thing about it. It's obviously a Hollywood production so the actors have to be good-looking. Because in the end credits you get to see some pictures of the real people from that time and the least you could say is that they were not as good-looking. I guess beauty sells better. Nevertheless Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is certainly worth watching.

JRmf Raw, gutsy, confronting, bullsh*t free. 50 Shades teases and promises much but barely touches on core material which here is so openly dealt with.I'm pretty open-minded, but the very unconventional values depicted here are so frank and honest I would feel awkward watching this with most people who wouldn't be so inclined, and who would almost certainly turn away in disgust.Marston's advocated DISC Dominance Inducement Submission Compliance theory and used comic book character Wonder Woman with its overtly sadomasochistic themes to portray how women can be powerful. His polyamorous relationship with wife Elizabeth and mistress Olive, and the women with each other, is something which would still not be widely accepted even today.If you're jaded with most movies and want something to challenge and wake you up, watch this!