Review of To the Wonder (2013) by Steve H — 04 Oct 2013

To The Wonder was a difficult movie to comprehend. Had I not read the summary in beforehand I probably would have understood it less than I do now. This movie doesn't tell you much, it is all about the beauty in the photography. Almost everything that is said is through voiceovers in different languages: French, Spanish, English, Russian and Italian.

I usually have a hard time with movies where they speak languages that I don't naturally understand, but it wasn't a problem in this movie seeing as everything they said were more like lyricism, poems. It was all so poetic and it was easy to read the subtitles and understand what they were saying even when you might not necessarily understand the movie's wholeness.

I loved how this movie was so beautiful and how it pretty much told you everything by just showing you moving images, but that can sometimes be a problem and I found it quite disturbing when it came to this movie. It's always annoying watching something and not being able to understand it. And in this case it was difficult to understand seeing as they jumped in time and forgot to show you things that they should have which just makes it all confusing.

It doesn't tell you how it all begins or how it ends or what happens in the middle, instead you have to decide for yourself. This movie should have told you more, it doesn't even tell you the characters names except in the credits and the relationships that they had with each other.

I can imagine this being quite a difficult movie to act in, and to direct. Seeing as everything is in slow motion and the actors didn't really have that much to say. And the director had to have been really sure of what he wanted to present to be able to develop such a beauty as he did in this movie. But beauty is all it really has going for it, and to be something that is worth seeing again and recommending to other people, it should have something more.