The Haunting Trailer for 'The Wonder' Explores the Power of Belief
Period film The Wonder is being billed as a "psychological thriller." The film's trailer reinforces that idea, casting everything in the pale blue perma-gloom that makes even the most straightforward farm animal appear vaguely menacing from the right angle. There are moments where the clip feels like nothing, so much as a horror movie.
But this story's themes revolve much more specifically around belief rather than fear—how we, both as individuals and as communities, choose to see the world around us and why we often need to find hope in something larger than ourselves or long for proof that the suffering we're enduring has some larger purpose.
Based on the novel of the same name by award-winning author Emma Donoghue (Room), The Wonder dramatizes the story of the infamous nineteenth-century "fasting girls," young women who supposedly stopped eating for months or even years at a time without dying or even suffering significant ill health effects.
