Movie Review: Wonder

Wonder

A Movie Review

Rating: 4 Laurels

Wonder (2017): Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay star in an inspiring story of a loving family whose son, born with facial differences, enters a mainstream school for the first time.

While Wonder was on sale at Amazon Video, I decided to use up some of my no rush shipping credits and check it out. Not since The Florida Project have I been so compelled to recommend a movie.

Ostensibly, Wonder is the story of Auggie, a medically fragile child whose many surgeries have left him disfigured, much like Rocky in Mask. We meet Auggie as he is about to begin Middle School, venturing past the world of homeschooling for the first time. Children being children, Auggie immediately gets bullied by the "cool kids," but the quiet kids start seeing past his looks to what he is inside.

There is the imdb-type summary.  However, if you only see Wonder as a story of Auggie, you are missing half the point. This movie is not about Auggie trying to find his place in the outside world, but rather about how Auggie impacts everyone around him's life. Like Next to Normal, it really examines the effect of disability on the family structure, as well as everyone from the inner circle on out in his social network. 

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