I haven't seen this movie, but I recall reading one review (I don't remember who wrote it) that said that the main character was portrayed as "too emotionally pure for a corrupt world" and seemed to be put on earth to show neurotypical people how crude they are. I don't know if the portrayal in the movie is actually that one-dimensional or not, but it makes me a little skeptical about this movie. It might be an ok movie, but it doesn't sound like the protagonist is someone I would readily identify with. I would actually like to see a movie with an aspie protagonist with some rough edges who's not always a very likeable person since that would be someone I could identify with more easily (if anyone ever makes a movie adaptation of the memoir
Atypical by Jesse Saperstein, that would fit the bill nicely). Also, I'd like to see an AS-themed movie that uses a bit of humor, maybe something like an
Office Space-style comedy about an aspie character trying to deal with a miserable office job (maybe it could be kind of a bleak comedy that used special effects and camera tricks like something out of a Darren Aronofsky film to depict the sensory nightmare that the character has to deal with every day at work).
Of course, there are some movies featuring characters who are never explicitly identified as aspies but could be interpreted that way. One recent example that comes to mind is Joel and Ethan Coen's
A Serious Man, in which the protagonist's brother seems a little aspie-like. One example that Jesse Saperstein gives in
Atypical of a movie featuring an aspie-like main character is
Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Also, I think some people saw the fictionalized Mark Zuckerberg in
The Social Network as a bit aspergian.
If nothing else, I think the soundtrack of the movie did a good job of expressing an aspie-like obsessiveness.
I thought
Mary and Max was a pretty good movie, but I just hope that people who watch it don't come away from it thinking that the lives of all people on the spectrum are that
grim (I couldn't help but think what a shame it was that Max missed out on the internet and forums like Aspies Central!).
people would probably never guess that I have Aspergers just by looking at me... Anyway, did anyone watch it? What do you think of it? Did you like it? ... Or it's going to be my 3rd unanswered post :twitcy:
