El Prodigio (2022) 📥

As Lib and a nun take turns watching the child to ensure no one is secretly feeding her, the atmosphere shifts from scientific curiosity to a desperate battle of wills. Lib is determined to find a rational explanation, while the local community—and Anna’s own family—are desperate to believe they are witnessing a miracle.

: The movie explicitly addresses the "stories" we create. It begins with a fourth-wall-breaking introduction, reminding the audience that we are about to watch a fiction—much like the fictions the characters believe. El prodigio (2022)

Set in 1862, thirteen years after the Great Famine in Ireland, English nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is summoned to a remote village. Her task is to observe an 11-year-old girl, Anna O’Donnell, who claims to have not eaten for four months, surviving only on "manna from heaven." As Lib and a nun take turns watching

The film excels at building tension by pitting two opposing worldviews against each other: It begins with a fourth-wall-breaking introduction