WONDER -- a film review
WONDER -- a film review I’m yet to come across anybody who hasn’t seen WONDER , a family drama, now playing in town. Based on a New York Times bestseller ‘Wonder’, a novel by R.J. Palacio, the movie is about August Pullman (Jacob Tramblay), Auggie for short, a boy who shuns the world and hides behind an astronaut’s head gear to escape the stares he gets from others. Born with facial deformity at birth that is irreparable and home -schooled by his mother Isabel (Julia Roberts), Auggie steps out into the real world to join middle school at his father’s insistence for the first time in life. Needless to say, he is rejected and avoided like the plague by his peers but shows quiet courage ignoring and standing up to bullying by some. Interestingly, his fertile and active imagination helps him surface through all the cruelty meted out to him. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, the movie gets sentimental and makes it irksome to realize sometimes how bullying in sc...