I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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.

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

When Wonder Woman made her live action big screen debut on opening weekend, a teaser for a movie based on the life of the creator and his relationship with his wife and her friends made the rounds causing lots of buzz. The thing is, the movie was better than the teaser. It's very accurate based on the time period and the casting is great. Unlike the wonder woman movie, this one is not for kids. It's rated R for sex and nudity and it shows. Luke Evans plays the lead role as Prof. Marston, who created the lie detector test and is on his way to create a game changing female super hero who would become the most famous of them all: Wonder Woman. I'm surprised that this movie didn't get any Oscar love (same for Wonder Woman 2017). Give this one a rental and see for yourself how wonderful this movie is.