RE: The Last Movie You Watched
June 16, 2018 at 1:24 pm
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(June 13, 2018 at 5:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(June 13, 2018 at 2:30 pm)KittyAnn Wrote: GIFTED 2017'
Amazing movie!
If you watched this movie you must do it.... At the beginning the acting - is great! Mary (Grace Mckenna) is a special, gifted child who solves complex math problems, this little girl is just amazing and i won't mention about Chris Evans who plays her uncle and he's fantastic in this role.. he's not my favourit actor but here he does great job. And of course must be here an animal too... one-eyed, red cat Fred. This movie is about math and or above all about true life choices and true love.... the love and sense of family that Mary and her uncle Frank have. Anyway you can have here the whole look of emotions.. you can laugh, cry or feel anxious. So, the all characters are awesome and every single one of them... and of course a plot!
You have to watch it!!!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4481414/
I saw the trailer when it came out; at the time, it enraged me more than any other trailer I had seen in a long time.
Here’s what I said at the time:
Quote:It may not seem like much, but here's the thing; this girl's got this amazing intellectual gift, and this woman from a special school discovered this and wants to put her into a special place where her gifts can be nurtured. And she's the bad guy because her dad promised his dead wife he'd give her a normal life, someplace where she will be surrounded by people she will come to see as idiots, likely becoming a target for bullying by other kids who don't like that she's actually got a functioning brain, unlike them.
It enrages me because I wound up in a similar situation; I learned to read before I was potty trained, and an IQ test I took at the age of 5 or 6 said I had an IQ of 176 (and it's the Weschler, as far as I can tell), but because my mother insisted that I go to a Lutheran school, specifically her old grade school, where the teachers simply weren't able to cope with someone who, in the first grade, could read a book without having to trace the words with my finger and the students treated me like some sort of Untermensch because I wasn't like them. I bear scars, both physical and mental, to this day. And they're expecting me to root for a Dad subjecting his own daughter to something so close to that?
And it turns out that the trailer really failed to represent the movie at all, since the Dad (actually the uncle) actually does have some idea of what Grandma has in mind, and That’s why he took such pains to try and spare her it.
My therapist convinced me to see it, and I was not disappointed.
I appreciate you sharing this. I'm no where near being gifted in the sense that it is depicted in this film, but I'm certainly appreciative of those individuals who have remarkable talents. When I used to participate in the online American Mensa discussion forums, I befriended two mensans who were exceptionally bright: one of them had a Stanford Binet L-M score over 190 while another had a Stanford Binet L-M score of 182. However, when each of them took the Wechsler tests (WAIS-R and WAIS III respectively), their scores were near the ceiling of the WAIS, which was around 155: the Wechsler tests give deviation IQ scores (compares scores against other test takers' scores), not ratio IQ scores (mental age over chronological age), so the scores received on the Wechsler tests will be lower than scores on tests such as the old Stanford Binet L-M, which have the tendency to give very high ratio IQ scores.
Years ago, I came across a site called Hoagies' gifted education. This site may be of interest for anyone who enjoyed Gifted (2017) or for anyone who is interested in the topic of intellectual giftedness.
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