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Now the questions. The film said that to counteract the wish stone, the people whose wishes it granted had to rescind their wishes. But the film did not specify what happened to all the people who didn't rescind their wishes (of which there had to have been many) so what, the stone works on minority rule?
And why exactly did Max Lord want to grant all these wishes… what did he get out of that chaos?
The film shows Max finally relenting when it appears his son will die during the nuclear exchange between the US and USSR. But are we shown any other examples of his son's love motivating his actions before this? Of course not. The film has him become a doting parent at the end of the film only, because the hackneyed narrative required him to. This is writer's fiat in all its splendour.
The NYTimes said it best when they noted how in 2017, when Wonder Woman's first movie came out and she was done saving the world, her horizons seemed limitless. Who would have guessed that her next big adult battle would be at a mall.