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Please Stand By (2017)
Another ableist movie with characters with autism
Since I have autism, I'm constantly on the lookout for stories about people like me. On account that I believe that stories about the life of people with autism tell me more about autism than diagnostic manuals. That is, of couse, if the stories are told by the subject in question, or close to a personal account. This movie appears to neither. It made me angry a lot of times, how close the character was to prejudiced images of asperger. And how the strangeness of the main character was told in relation to normality. For instance, since it is quite common that neither greeting or hugging comes easily for poeple with autsim, when the woman supervising the home (who called Wendy patient, is he ther her doctor or therapist?!!) uses a whistle to greet and som strange pseudo hug in place of a hug, I don't feel that these rituals are for the sake of Wendy. As much as they are to comfort people around her, that need her to act according to nomalized rituals to feel empathy towards her.
So if I where to think of it a some sort of feelgood movie, it would be for people with friends or family of people with autism, but then again, if a feelgood movie reproduce prejudice, then the good only feels good as long as you are in the dark, of that you are partaking i reproducing values that can be percieved as degrading.
Of course this is my personal opinion from an autistic perspective. I think that people making movies about autism should be read or viewed by people with the diagnosis, since this movie unfortunately is quite more common than uncommon
Lan se da men (2002)
Coming-out like this makes you want to hope for a better World!
It is mostly Asian films that take me were this lovely low key love story go. Composed of everyday moments and sentiments. Tempered in tone of voice and in lighting.
Note: As I grew up on french love drama as "Un coeur en hiver" and the like of it, I used to think of love stories as earth shaking and tragic affairs and longed for just that dark kick.
But lately I think that it is evident that the assuredness that the characters convey in this movie, in being shy and unsure but in being true to this they and the movie convey this: they doesn't exclude me from their universe, their life is like mine. They are like ordinary people, they just do it very beautifully.
For me the story is carried by Meng Kerou's (in a sense not fully completed) coming-out, as a hb-person, process. In comparison to European variants of this theme, and I've seen quite a few this last week, I am truly grateful to the auteurs and actors that the movie is so light, in that it doesn't focus severely on guilt or shame, but on the life and sense of life in its characters.
After seeing it i feel very warm, although not totally hopeful, and kind of wish that I were Kerou in her coolness, sharpness and quiet honesty. See it, and see it again!