The Wonder Score Details “Sebastián Lelio's The Wonder is an engrossing new gothic mystery that gives Florence Pugh the chance to turn in one of her best performances in years.” Pros Cons In its outstanding first scene, The Wonder tells us exactly what it is. The new film from Disobedience and A Fantastic Woman director Sebastián Lelio opens on a modern-day soundstage. “This is the beginning. The beginning of a film called The Wonder,” an unseen woman tells us.
They’re lies that we choose, at our own discretion, to believe. The film’s insistence on acknowledging this in its first scene is not only a bold, attention-grabbing creative decision, but it proves to be the perfect opening note for a movie that is about stories and, specifically, the ways in which they can save or kill us, depending on which we choose to believe. Some lies, after all, are deadlier than others.
Lib’s assignment is to monitor Anna and her family in order to ensure that she is not secretly being fed or in any way faking her own, seemingly ineffective period of starvation. Despite initially shrugging off Anna and her fellow villagers’ claims, though, Lib quickly begins to question both herself and her beliefs after spending several days with the O’Donnells.
Pugh provides a strong, empathetic anchor to The Wonder as its central nurse. Her character’s intense emotional scars and unwavering desire to save her patients from the horrors of the world also give Pugh the chance to turn in one of her strongest performances to date — if not her best since 2016’s Lady Macbeth.
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