Films About Asperger's

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My S.O. and I just saw "Chocolate" (it came from Blockbuster today), and it's an amazing martial arts film!

The heroine's autism greatly enhances her martial arts abilities (which makes great sense for anyone who knows anything about the "inner game" of martial arts). This film almost non-stop action (some moves and stunts I've never seen before), and after the plot ends there is a Jackie Chan-type addendum: scenes of the filming, and real life injuries the cast sustained during the stunts!

Although my S.O. has seen four or five Thai martial arts films, this is the first one for me. Significantly different than Japanese and Chinese martial arts films I've seen, but in a good way.

I never would have seen this film without garyww's recommendation. It's worth seeing both for the autism plot slant and also for the martial arts choreography. The actors worked (and were actually injured, in many cases) to get some of these amazing sequences and it shows.

Thank you.

in snowcake she has HFA.

it was just interesting until she felt sad and asked someone to hug her really tightly and not use their hands, then i really cried, cos i realised how mad it sounds, and how weird i am.
i hate being hugged, too, which is really sad.

on tv-

there was an episode of law and order i saw recently, with angela landsbury (jessica fletcher!!) playing the mother to a 'weird' man, who was a rape adn murder suspect (i tnhik he did it, actually). they were really rich, and she said 'thats my son, even thuogh he has all eh money in the world, he cant even pay a parking ticket' (because he had not filled out some simple paperwork.
he spoke in a monotonal voice and replied to 'where were you?' questions with lists 'i went to the diner and i ate...' etc. it wasnt mentioned what was wrong with him, but i thought he was classically, stereotypical aspie.

i also think sheldon in the big bang theory (crap sitcom) is supposed to be aspie- a quick google reveals everyone else does too;

'One of my favorite scenes in The Big Bang Theory involves ... Sheldon (who) is a genius physicist with a serious case of Asperger's syndrome...'

'One of last week's most entertaining web reads was an article in Slate about The Big Bang Theory. In it, writer Paul Collins expends about 1500 words wondering if Sheldon, the genius / social misfit played so ably by Jim Parsons, has Asperger's syndrome.'

Sheldon is too good at social reciprocation, and his nonverbal cues are there.

On a recent episode I saw over here (it's probably old in other countries), they did include some routines that he had, but they can be due to a high level of intelligence, or something like OCPD.

you're probably right- i have not analysed it too much; you clearly watch it more!
i think he's supposed to be, anyway; from a basic, pop understanding of a.s.

its all over the internet that he is- it must be true!! !

Today's Man is a good one

My movie "If You Could Say It In Words" (which won Best of Festival at the 2008 Derby City Film Fest) and Max Mayer's movie "Adam" which had a very successful screening at Sundance in January are both playing at the 2009 Method Fest (www.methodfest.com) near Los Angeles CA at the end of March.

Both movies are about romances between an NT girl feeling lost in life and an aspie man, but they are starkly different in tone. One is much sweeter, the other much darker. For those looking for more movies to be made about people on the spectrum, turning out to support these two films is a great way to encourage Hollywood studios not to marginalize stories about autistics as some kind of "fringe audience film". Also, because they are so different from each other even though they are telling almost the same story, its a good chance to get some conversation going about the way ASD are portrayed in the media.

If you're near LA, or have friends who are, send them to check out the festival site. More info about my movie can be found here: www.IfYouCould-Movie.com/Festivals