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Nov 2, 2022 · Pugh can’t lean too far into the emotional or risk turning “The Wonder” into a more traditional melodrama, the kind of thing that’s easier to place in a box and walk away from. Lelio doesn’t want that.
Nov 15, 2022 · Movie Review. ‘The Wonder’ Is This Year’s Other Florence Pugh Drama — The Good One. There's no gossip, nicknames or bad blood involved in this 19th-century melodrama with furrowed brows and a...
- David Fear
- What's with That Weird opening?
- What Does Nurse Wright Drink Every Night?
- Is It True That Anna Doesn't Need to Eat?
- Why Does Anna Refuse to Eat?
- What's with The Narrator at The End?
- Is The Wonder Based on A True Story?
You might have been double-checking which movie you'd put on after seeing this period drama's strange beginning. To the sounds of haunting choral voices, we see the semi-built structure of an old-fashioned two-storey house. The camera pans through what appears to be a lot in a film studio, filled with equipment and other pieces of set. Then actor N...
Nurse Wright's addiction to what looks to be laudanum, a tincture of opium, is another nod to that question of what's real and what isn't. Nurse Wright has suffered her fair share of tragedy -- her baby daughter died and her husband left her soon after -- and the night cap might be her way of coping. Pricking her finger with blood could be a way of...
Not long into Nurse Wright's stay with the O'Donnell family, we see young Anna's mother lean in close to her daughter's face during a nightly prayer. It isn't clear if we're witnessing a loving kiss on the forehead or something more disturbing. Nurse Wright soon escalates her watch over the miracle patient by insisting the O'Donnells no longer come...
Even after Nurse Wright reveals her findings to the committee, Anna's mother refuses to admit the truth. She and her husband are willing to let the experiment continue, even if Anna dies, refusing to give up their religious beliefs. In any case, Anna has "chosen" the path to death, believing that if she dies, "one soul will be released... from Hell...
In the end, Nurse Wright uses the power of storytelling and belief to save Anna. After discovering the horrifying narrative Anna's mother has fed her, Nurse Wright convinces Anna she could face a different fate: That she can die and make her sacrifice, but also be reborn as a 9-year-old again who didn't suffer terrible acts. Mixing the opioid liqui...
Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue adapted The Wonder from her own 2016 novel (Donoghue did the same with her 2010 novel Room, the 2015 adaptation seeing Brie Larson win the best actress Oscar). The story of The Wonder isn't based on real-life events but was inspired by the phenomenon of "the fasting girl," dating back to the 1500s, whereby girls ...
The Wonder is a 2022 period psychological drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Emma Donoghue, Lelio, and Alice Birch wrote the screenplay based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Donoghue.
Oct 28, 2022 · Unless you are absolutely fine with weapons-grade melodrama, this is possibly not the movie for you. Every plot progression and twist — from the big reveal to the ludicrous denouement — seems...
- Florence Pugh
- Sebastián Lelio
Sep 3, 2022 · Sebastián Lelio’s sumptuous Netflix adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel is all about the power of belief, often in unexpected packages.
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Nov 17, 2022 · The beguiling period drama starring Florence Pugh opens not in Ireland’s boglands as promised by the trailer, but in the harsh light of a film studio. A disembodied voice (Niamh Algar ’s) will...
