That are not Rainman but also not Mozart And The Whale (only one i related to a tiny bit was the women the traits where overacted and it was not a very good film at all) Or am i right in thinking a proper decent one has not been made yet?
How about A Beautiful Mind? They don't mention Asperger's or autism, but John Nash really does seem like a Aspie. I found this bit on Wikipedia which also seems to support this: "At the age of twelve, he was carrying out scientific experiments in his room at home. It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his experiments and studies."
Sounds pretty Aspie to me...
My boyfriend suffers from aspergers,
No. Don't say suffer. It's a big no-no on this site. It's better to say "My boyfriend has Aspergers" or "My boyfriend is Aspergian."
Since Aspergian people can't read language signs well, they may misread some signs and get the wrong idea.
How about A Beautiful Mind? They don't mention Asperger's or autism, but John Nash really does seem like a Aspie. I found this bit on Wikipedia which also seems to support this: "At the age of twelve, he was carrying out scientific experiments in his room at home. It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his experiments and studies."
Sounds pretty Aspie to me...
I don't mean Atypical really all of them seem to be like that not every aspire prefers scientific experiments and studies to sports etc.
ignore the above it was a quote from another thread and you can not edit on here so erm.
No, of course not every Aspie likes doing scientific experiments (though many Aspies have a tendency towards being more interested in scientific/technical stuff), but the message is the same no matter what the obsession is:
"At the age of twelve, he was writing novels in his room at home. It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his literary adventures."
"At the age of twelve, he was composing symphonies in his room at home. It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his music."
"At the age of twelve, he was programming computers in his room at home. It was quite apparent at a young age that he did not like working with other people, preferring to do things alone. He returned the social rejection of his classmates with practical jokes and intellectual superiority, believing their dances and sports to be a distraction from his application coding."
Etc, etc, etc...
I think that Amélie and Nino, from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, are both aspies. They were both lonely people, Nino was bullied at school and he had an awesome collection of pictures of people. In the movie it's also mentioned that he used to record funny laughs before he started with the collection.
Amélie created this crazy plan just to give him his album back... anyway, they both have aspie traits.
I watched the trailer and some scenes on youtube and I don't like Mozart and the Whale at all, It's all over-reacted and they keep explaining the symptoms unnecesarily. But I guess I have to watch it complete to get a better opinion of it.
There is a new movie out called "Snow Cake". i think it was released in August in the UK but not yet in the US. Sigourney Weaver portrays "high funtioning" AS. Haven't seen it yet but watched preview on the Leaky Cauldron.com: video leaky new, It stars Alan Rickman and Carrie Ann Moss. Looks good. It's not auspers but it's something new on/about the spectrum.
There is a new movie out called "Snow Cake". i think it was released in August in the UK but not yet in the US. Sigourney Weaver portrays "high funtioning" AS. Haven't seen it yet but watched preview on the Leaky Cauldron.com: video leaky new, It stars Alan Rickman and Carrie Ann Moss. Looks good. It's not auspers but it's something new on/about the spectrum.
In Snow Cake Sigourney Weaver plays a character who is autistic, non Aspie.
The screenplay was written by a woman who has an autistic son. But when it later came to development, the character played by Sigourney Weaver was based on an autistic woman, whom Sigourney Weaver met and spent some time with.
[I went to see the film at my local arthouse cinema and they had a Director's talk after the screening, with the director, producer and screenwriter.]
I thought it was a really good film, a really positive portrayal of an adult on the spectrum who, admittedly, has some 'problems', or should I say differences, but who nevertheless lives an independent and fulfilling life.
I highly recommend it.
The trouble with some films "about" people with AS is that they seem to feel an unnecessary need either to over-explain things. Or to be unnecessarily arty and pretentious.
I personally like straight forward movies without... I don't really know how to put it except for "pretentious" overtones.
(There is a brief mention of AS in the movie "Nell" -- towards the end during the court scene. And without any - unnecessary - elaboration. Don't know what other people think of that movie? Personally, I enjoyed it.)