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Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb)
When it all comes down to it, all any of us want is to be loved and to belong.
Simple, really.
But in the real world, away from our (hopefully) loving families, not everyone is as accommodating as they could be to that simple truth, something that Auggie Pullman, who has endured innumerable operations in his short life and all the rejection from the wider world that comes with not looking “normal” (whatever the hell that is), knows all too well.
As someone who went through hell on earth at school and was bulled from kindergarten to my final year in school, for my sexuality not necessarily looks (though the net effect was the same), it’s an unenviable state of being that I can relate to, along with many others, a fact that propelled the book by Raquel Palacio to the top of the bestseller lists.
And now to a worldwide cinema release where the endlessly relatable story of Auggie, his loving family and a not entirely loving outside world will be granted their biggest exposure yet.
Who can identify with this film on some level, either as a fellow victim or someone with a beating, compassionate heart?
Expect Wonder to do very well, and maybe, just maybe, remind a few more people that feeling different simply needs to be met with love and compassion.
Simple, really.
Wonder opens in USA on 17 November and Australia on 30 November 2017.
I can;t wait to see this, it looks like one of those movies that may be an emotional rollercoaster of a movie to watch.