Achsah Guibbory

I actually loved The Wonder. I rarely review movies, but this one I had to as I'd read some rather negative reviews. The story is indeed not absurd, totally believable, and beautifully acted, evoking the Victorian mentality, that period in Ireland's history, with its horrible famine, the complexity of faith (with its absurdity, its poignant place in providing hope, and its expression of human longings), and the ways in which young girls (and women) have found often the most disturbing and self-annhilating ways of dealing with abuse as a child, and for a girl.. Things revealed at the end that put the whole preceding movie in perspective, and make us look back at everything we saw and maybe suspected.. The only flaw for me, or at least puzzle, is the ending where I don't know what to make the flat unemotional faces of the three people. But even that drives me to think further about the movie. It stays with me.. I rarely watch an almost two hour movie late at night these days, but I did this one!