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Partway through Wonder, Fifth-grader Auggie Pullman finds himself seated across
from a new friend in the school cafeteria. "Have you ever thought about
having plastic surgery?" the friend asks.
"Dude, this is after plastic surgery. It
takes a lot of work to look this good," Auggie says, running a hand
through his hair. In other words, what could be painfully depressing turns out
to hold lurking (潜藏的) reserves of humour, which is pretty much the story of Wonder.
Auggie, played by Jacob Tremblay, was born
with a facial difference, and even after multiple operations, his looks shock
his classmates. As he adapts from homeschooling to a new school community, he
encounters far worse than that lunchtime scene—one nasty bully (横行霸道者) says he'd kill himself if he looked like Auggie—but he never fully loses heart.
The movie is an adaptation of the 2012
novel by R.J.Palacio, which has sold 6 million copies in North America and
launched an antibullying campaign, Choose Kind. Palacio has said she got the
idea for the story when her young son began crying at the sight of a girl with
a facial difference in an ice cream shop. She took her kids out of the shop,
but later regretted her reaction. "What I should have done is simply
turned to the little girl and started up a conversation and shown my kids that
there was nothing to be afraid of," she said.
Tremblay, 11, who broke out opposite Brie
Larson in the 2015 drama Room, has
more than a few things in common with Auggie. "We both love Star Wars, we have awesome families, and
we love our dogs." But Tremblay thinks we all can find something in common
with the boy. "Everyone's like Auggie in one very important way: we want
to be accepted and treated equally and with kindness."
Julia Roberts, who plays Auggie's mother,
became interested in the part because of her own children, "I read it with
my kids and fell so in love with it," she says of the novel. "This
book is such a beautiful and gentle introduction into all kinds of topics,
including bullying and intolerance and fear, and what fear makes young people
do sometimes."
Both actors have some familiarity with the
subject. "I was picked on quite a bit as a young person," Roberts
says, though she won't say what for. "Even as a 50-year-old mother of
three, it's not a path I like to go up and down." Tremblay reveals a bit
more. "I have been picked on," he says, "because I'm kind of
short for me age. I told my parents, and that's one of the best things you can
do, because my mom said would never want me to carry negative thoughts on my
shoulders alone."
The most challenging parts of filming, says
Tremblay, were moments in which he had to cry. Tenderhearted audience members
will likely shed tears of their own—especially during scenes
between Auggie and his mom, who repeatedly reassures her son that he is worthy
of love. But the movie also has its fair share of hijinks (喧闹): for every tear-filled
moment, there is a lightsaber battle or silly science project to lighten the
mood. This mixture of pity and humor, says Roberts, "was intrinsic (固有的) in the writing in the novel." But she credits
writer-director Stephen Chbosky with translating that balance into visual
terms.
As much as the movie impresses the viewer
with compassion for the underdogs, it also finds a way to sympathize with the
bullies. "I would say to try to take a moment to be conscious of why a
person that is bullying somebody is behaving that way," says Roberts, "After
all", she adds, "There's no child that's born bully."
