The Wonder (I) (2022)
7/10
There's humanism in them there Irish bogs.
22 November 2022
An intriguing and disturbing, sweet, simplistic and idealised sketch of a "period" movie set in Ireland after the terrible Potato Famine of the late 19th Century. Wow, that's a lot of adjectives! I began watching this because I'd run out of dumb movies to watch. I wasn't expecting much because I knew it was going to have a heavy religious slant to it, and that turned out to be true. But if, like me, you can take only so much god-bothering twaddle, then I implore you to hang on in there: humanism and basic goodness are right there, battling it out with the weirdo christians - right to the very end.

So I'm very glad I saw it through. Not sure what the top-and-tail were about though.
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