The wonder in this movie is their self-satisfied conviction that they are creating an intellectual masterpiece. "How about we begin and end the movie by breaking the fourth wall?" "Visionary!" This belief is misplaced, delusional and unintentionally hilarious. The Wonder is all melancholic flair and no substance.
It has only been an hour since I laboured through the movie and I am hard pressed to remember any of the characters' names, besides Anna. The storyline is so linear and utterly bereft of character development that I found myself wishing for the child to just finally starve to death so that the credits could start rolling.
Thirteen years after the end of the Great Famine and the collective Irish psyche struggles to recover from those traumatic times. A girl who doesn't eat and survives is upheld as a miracle by the clergy and maybe her family has a secret agenda to hide. An English nurse is commissioned to investigate and the situation is made more difficult for her by the enduring resentment of the Irish towards the English for their part in the famine.
Little is known about this nurse except she has seen war and lost loved ones. They could have cut to scenes depicting her earlier life or the great famine to add context to the themes of Irish vs English, religion vs science, love vs loss. It is a pity those responsible were not smart enough to create a more engaging story where one could actually care about the characters, which were as emaciated as the Irish at the height of the famine.
It has only been an hour since I laboured through the movie and I am hard pressed to remember any of the characters' names, besides Anna. The storyline is so linear and utterly bereft of character development that I found myself wishing for the child to just finally starve to death so that the credits could start rolling.
Thirteen years after the end of the Great Famine and the collective Irish psyche struggles to recover from those traumatic times. A girl who doesn't eat and survives is upheld as a miracle by the clergy and maybe her family has a secret agenda to hide. An English nurse is commissioned to investigate and the situation is made more difficult for her by the enduring resentment of the Irish towards the English for their part in the famine.
Little is known about this nurse except she has seen war and lost loved ones. They could have cut to scenes depicting her earlier life or the great famine to add context to the themes of Irish vs English, religion vs science, love vs loss. It is a pity those responsible were not smart enough to create a more engaging story where one could actually care about the characters, which were as emaciated as the Irish at the height of the famine.