"It is Not Their War".

Welcome back to Diana's journey. Coming near the end of Diana's time on Themyscira. While the first of these scenes are most focused on Steve, there are plenty of Diana character bits during these scenes, particularly the latter scene. With that said, let's dig into Steve's interrogation.

After Steve is interrogated with the lasso and reveals his spy work in Germany, he begins to try to persuade the amazons to let him leave to get the book from Dr. Maru to British intelligence. The important thing to note during this whole sequence, as it relates to Diana, is that Steve decides to steal the book although he was supposed to just observe and report. The reason he gives is that he had to do something after seeing what the new gas weapon could do. This will be echoed in the film more than once and it's the first time Diana takes a characteristic from someone outside of the island.

It's not long after Steve gives his plea that he mentions the three letter word that Diana believes is the key to everything concerning mankind, war. Especially after Steve says it's the war to end all wars. That line alone gives Hippolyta pause to consider his request seriously.

In his last chance ditch effort, Steve pulls out the numbers of the dead, which include: Soldiers and civilians, and women and children. Through her facial expressions, this is what wins Diana over if she was not before. Given her reaction to that first Amazon dead in the battle and Antiope's death, she doesn't values the life of a soldier much more innocent people who cannot defend themselves.

Of course the value of life is nothing new for a hero, again it's the definition. The difference is that she has trained her entire life to become a soldier and doesn't really know what it means to be helpless, and Diana still believes that man is still has the potential to be perfect they are just corrupted now; more on that later.

Once the council is dismissed to consider their options, Hippolyta immediately goes to the choice that they keep Steve their until another amazon says that they can't keep him there forever. Diana interjects and immediately goes to the theory that all of this is Ares fault. This is the ultimate culmination of everything she has learned thus far. All she heard growing up is that man was created to be good and the only reason why they have been corrupted is because of Ares. That and the first man she has ever met is everything her mother told her that men are supposed to be: a warrior, someone that values life, and someone that seeks to end war.

Giving all of the reasons she believes it is Ares: Only Ares could be the cause of the death of millions and great destruction he has never seen before, she suggest that they send someone with him, if not all of them.

Hippolyta declines and says that she's not deploying all of their defenses to fight a war that is not their own, and Diana responds that it is their war. Because man was, "Created by Zeus to be just and wise, strong and passionate". Though Hippolyta hears her reasons she gives her a cold dose of reality and tells her that men are easily corrupted and she doesn't understand many things. Even here Diana still stands her ground that Ares is behind the corruption and as Amazons it's their priority above all else to destroy Ares. Another noteworthy point is that here she only gets part of the reasons that the Amazons exist, to end war and keep peace throughout the world. I believe this is part of why Hippolyta says there is much she does not understand.

While Hippolyta makes a good point and Diana will learn this down the line, she herself is missing the other part of the Amazons mission in ending war. In many ways the Amazons seem like monks or pacifist. Even though they are well equipped to be a part of the solution, as long as their ways of life are not interrupted, why should they become involved. Yes, with age everyone becomes jaded and bitter on the look of humanity. That is something that is key to Diana as a character is that no one person that influences her throughout this film is completely right or wrong.

To put an end to Diana's insistence, Hippolyta tells her she is not an Amazon like the rest of them and forbids her to go with Steve. Yet those words that she is not like the rest of the Amazons will ring true more than could possibly have been imagined by Diana at this time.

That's it for this part guys. The last scene in this part especially could have gone on and on, however, this is not a commentary picking apart every aspect of the movie, just Diana's character and journey. The next few scenes will have the same issue, but when all is said and done isn't that a good problem to have. So if that happens, my apology's if any of these go on a tangent as it's highly possible that could happen. Till next time, when we will be discussing Diana's conversation with Steve. Thanks for reading guys.