#the wonder florence pugh

[whumpy-daydreams]

CW: religious trauma, eating disorders

Just watched the wonder and I think all the people saying how it was only good because of Florence (who I love btw) and that the 4th wall breaks were confusing are missing the point.

The story isn't about a girl who doesn't eat.

It's about religious trauma and the power stories have.

(Spoilers and more analysis under the cut)

At the very start you are asked to suspend your disbelief. In the context of Anna's fasting, she is allowed (and encouraged) to continue because of others suspension of disbelief.

The adults around her believe that it is possible because of God and the will of heaven. This story that they have told themselves and told Anna prevents the true problem from being addressed.

Anna's mother has also told herself a story about her son. She wants to believe her son was good, that he would go to heaven, but she also knows that it isn't true. So to help convince herself and ease her loss, she believes that Anna can save him.

Religion is powerful at helping with loss. But when people believe someone they love will burn forever, how can religion help? They provide a solution. Fasting and prayer will allow him to ascend to heaven. And because Anna believes she is also responsible for his death, she tries so hard to save him from a story she's been told.

On the opposite side, Lib doesn't believe the story. She doesn't suspend her disbelief, and this is shown in her interactions with the narrator. She is also an observer, just as the viewer is.

By the end of the story, she realises that Anna needs a story to believe in. So she creates one: of a child picked by God to die, and a child who is reborn from that child who has no sins to atone for.

She turns Anna's suffering into a character that Anna can kill by becoming Nan. And it works.

When, at the end of the film, we reveal the set again, it reflects Anna's story - she has escaped a terrible story and ended the belief that she must save her brother. It frees her to have a new start, while still learning from what happened in the past.

The narrator's character knows the truth but doesn't interfere with the story, just as the narrator does when not in character.

The narrator is the author, Lib is the reader, and Anna is the character.

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