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Her weakness is very explicitly her naivete.
This is not a weakness in the film. It could have been, but it wasn’t. When she goes to the front, she is told she cannot cross No Man’s Land. She doesn’t understand the kind of modern artillery firepower she is up against. She does it anyway and succeeds. She’s told there is a gas that can end civilization and kill millions of people. She has probably never encountered something like that before. She walks right into a cloud of it and lives anyway.
At no point did her naivety cost her anything. It was a nice storyline that I was digging, but it was never a weakness.
Like Superman, her weakness is mental, not physical.
Not sure what else to say here, other than to reiterate that she’s not supposed to be threatened like a normal person is threatened by violence, she’s above that.
So how is her naivete a weakness? At what point does it come back to bite her in the ass? I don’t think it ever did, hence my criticism. She was so naive that she goes up to the front when nobody else would want to go there. She’s so naive that she jumps out of a trench and charges across the battlefield where hundreds if not thousands of rockets, mortars, and agents of chemical warfare are targeted on her, and this costs her how exactly? She’s so naive she believes in rubbish fairtyales that couldn’t possibly be real…or could they?
It’s a good subplot that I enjoyed for the most part, in contrast to the characters and real world around her. But a weakness is a vulnerability, not just a character trait, and I don’t think there was any payoff. There was never a point in the movie where I felt like she was vulnerable or going to fail at anything she tried to do.