Watched Wonder (2017) by an author from letterboxd.com
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

I’ve avoided this film like the plague because it felt a lot like disability-tourism: “Wouldn’t it be AWFUL if you had these challenges in YOUR life!?”

But it doesn’t play like that at all. I think it might (not so) secretly be a Christian metaphor about love. The love that exists when you set aside differences and accept other’s short-comings alongside your own. You know?

I’m an atheist but even I know we need more of that in our world.

★★★★

My review

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