RE: The Last Movie You Watched
March 5, 2021 at 3:00 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2021 at 3:51 am by Rev. Rye.)
(March 5, 2021 at 2:40 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: The songs were all fantastic and the choreography was top notch as you would expect from a Sia and Maddie project. If you want everything to be 100 percent realistic, good luck getting that with any film ever made. If people want complete realism, maybe watching a documentary would be better suited for them.
You do know there's a middle ground between Music and a documentary about autism, right? There's a few films that do a far better portrayal of autism than Music. Some examples:
- Adam
- Jane Wants a Boyfriend
- Keep the Change
- Mary and Max
- Mozart and the Whale
- Please Stand By
- Snow Cake
- Story of Luke
- Temple Grandin
- Honorable Mention: while Taxi Driver was written before autism was known as anything but an obscure childhood disorder, the more I watch it, the harder it becomes for me to not see Travis as having an ASD (especially noticeable in the scenes where he's trying to woo Betsy), even if it is clearly one complicated by PTSD he got in 'Nam. And that's not even the only fictional character I've headcanoned as being on the spectrum. Here's an incomplete list of movies I've seen where a protagonist really seems to be on the spectrum:
And Rain Man, for all its many flaws, at least does a good job of portraying a lower-functioning autistic person, and if you were making these arguments about that movie, it'd be easier to sympathise with your POV.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.