The Wonder || For those who know how to look, the miracles are in another direction.

over 1 year ago

For some time now, due to family and other commitments, my internet access time has been reduced. This meant less #hive and less #movies for me.

It would be pointless to complain, given that health is the first and foremost priority. I may have to continue like this for a while until I get things back on track. In the little time I had, I watched a movie called The Wonder.

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What I saw in the movie, which was produced in 2022, and which, in my opinion, even preceded the subject of the movie, was how the "domestic execution" could be realized using faith.

Domestic execution is so slow that it becomes an exploitation of faith, taking months to sentence to death and months to carry out the execution.

I remember watching another movie with the same title, but the story there and the story in this movie take place and progress at very different and extreme points.

Lib Wright (played by Florence Pugh), a young British nurse, is assigned to check on Anna (played by Kila Lord Cassidy), who has not eaten for 4 months but is quite healthy, and to keep watch to determine if she is eating.

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The main story of the movie revolves around Anna. While the clergy thinks she is a saint, Lib is interested in the scientific proof of what happened.

While scientifically investigating the way someone can stay healthy for months without eating, uncovering the incest in the family and the method of punishment afterwards and trying to save the young girl (Anna) who is not to blame for what happened suddenly turns into scenes full of tension.

The sensitivity in matters of faith has prevented many issues from being questioned. When questioned, it is common to interpret it as disrespect to God and religious values, and to be blamed in return.

While watching the movie The Wonder, I saw that Lib, a nurse who was trying to uncover what was done to a girl who was being prepared to be declared a saint by nuns, priests and similar clerics, faced many obstacles. The actions of the obstacles, which were constantly using religious values as an excuse for exploitation of faith, were quite meaningful.

It makes you wonder: do we really want the truth to come out?

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It was good to watch the efforts of Florence Pugh as Lib, a nurse who knows how to separate faith and science. Her successful performance transformed what I initially saw as a mediocre movie into a suspense-laden production worth watching every moment.

The last scenes where she shows her intelligence were the most valuable moments of the movie. Watching the eyes full of life of the girl who was ostracized by her family and given a new life thanks to the fiction that gave her the opportunity to live again was the farewell of the movie with scenes full of emotion.

The Wonder is really about a miracle, but not a saintly or faith-based miracle. It is about the miracle of a nurse who offers others the same right to life that she herself had.