ADAM

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it's some movie about asperger's and romance

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92U6OnVZG3U[/youtube]


what do you guys think?

My mother and I rented it recently. It was kind of depressing. I didn't think it was fair that Beth didn't give Adam a chance and that she didn't even try to understand his Asperger's. Plus, she had her own problems so I didn't think she had the right to judge him the way that she did. She also might have just been taking her anger out on him because she was upset about what her father had done. I also think that whoever wrote the movie is generalizing people with Asperger's. Not all people have such an extreme case of it as Adam did. But there was some humor, like when he hangs outside of her window, wearing a spacesuit, with a Squeegee in his hand and says he was cleaning her window so that she could see out of it. Otherwise I think the story could have been written better. I think it perpetuates the notion that people with Asperger's can't fall in love, which is not true.

At least it's better and more accurate than Mozart and the Whale movie.

In my opinion, of course.

It was crap.

An inept, yet-lovable blundering virgin Aspie who has to overcome the prejudice of a girl's father in order to be with her?

D- for originality

Oh, and...she DID give him a chance. Right up until he was preparing to leave for his new job,
after she basically defied and ran away from her father,
she asked Adam why he wanted her to come with him.
The answer?
He would need her to cope with moving and navigating in his new setting.

True love, t'was not.

I've seen the movie. It was okay for me. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.