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Nov 18, 2022 · Aidan Monaghan/Netflix. Warning: Major spoilers for "The Wonder," which premiered on Netflix on November 16. Florence Pugh plays a nurse investigating a young girl's miraculous fast in...
Nov 2, 2022 · In the film, Pugh portrays Lib Wright, an English nurse who tries to uncover the mystery surrounding the claims of Anna O'Donelle, an 11-year-old girl, who professes that she only lives on "manna...
Is The Wonder Based on a True Story? Inside the Florence Pugh movie. - Netflix Tudum. No. But also kind of yes… A look at the phenomenon behind the new film about an Irish “fasting girl.”
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- The Fasting Girls
- The Sarah Jacobs Case
- The Setting ofthe Wonder
A "fasting girl" was someone who claimed to be able to live without food, or, alternatively, others claimed these young women survived on no food. The "fasting girl" was usually in their teenage years, and would often go on to achieve celebrity status in their local community by not eating as seen inThe Wonder,when Anna's parents begin to accept mo...
Donoghue toldNewsweek that one case, in particular, caught her attention. However, she found it too sad to adapt for her 2016 novel. She said: "There was a Welsh case in the 1870s—Sarah Jacobs. It was too sad for me to write about because basically, a newspaper hired nurses who watched for, I think a week, and she died. "I came across that case in ...
Explaining her choice to set The Wonderin 1850s Ireland, Donoghue described it as a "really powerful" way to tackle sexism and the experience of women in the country for several centuries. She explained: "With the [real] fasting girls, I thought there was something really important going on about food and bodies and girls and sexuality and religion...
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- Molli Mitchell
Nov 25, 2022 · Aidan Monaghan/Netflix. If you just caught The Wonder on Netflix, you might have questions about that unconventional ending. The psychological drama from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio asks you...
Nov 17, 2022 · The film, which stars Florence Pugh, is based on Emma Donoghue's novel of the same name about an 11-year-old girl named Anna who mysteriously — supposedly miraculously — can survive without food for months. The story, set in the 19th century, blends themes of religious skepticism and medical abnormalities.
Aug 18, 2022 · The Wonder is a psychological thriller centred around English nurse Lib who travels to a small town to observe an 11-year-old girl, Anna O’Donnell, who has stopped eating but somehow remains alive and healthy.
