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wob182
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 Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: Just saw 'mozart and the whale' what did u guys think? |
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I was told by a fellow aspie to watch it. I watched it with my close friend who doesn't know too much about AS i found it helped better to explain it especially when the metal rings made her have a meltdown, they played it slow motion and portrayed the pain really well that the next day when a fire alarm went off and I was covering my ears and rocking back and forth on the floor my friend understood.
Apparently the girl I forget her name is my twin, we even laugh the same. :S
I want to know what you guys think. Personally I'd show this any day over the rainman to explain AS. (i say rainman because I was told to watch it when I 1st got diagnosed)
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I was a little frustrated by the movie because I could see the meltdowns coming and I couldn't tell them to stop. But I really loved the movie. I loved how the attitude was "We're autistic and we can't really change it."
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Some of it was a bit exaggerated, but overall not too bad.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| It was okay but I've no desire to watch it again |
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silentbob15
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Ben X was a better movie, it is a foreign language film, but I highly recommend seeing this movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0953318/ |
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| poopylungstuffing wrote: | | it made me think that I wasn't really an aspie. |
Me too. Like Orwell said, it was a bit exaggerated. I saw some things in both of them that reminded me of myself some but nothing solid. If noises get to me I usually start chanting to myself like "I gotta get outta here, I gotta outta here" until I am away from the noise. I figure it's Hollywood so it had to be exaggerated otherwise the average NT viewer would see one simple thing and say "Well I do that". |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:48 am Post subject: |
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I thought the movie was very good and they made all the characters different from each other. Just shows how everyone is effected differently by it.
I could never understand how the symptoms were exaggerated, was it because aspies don't react the same way they do, don't have a loud voice, don't have savant skills?
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wob182
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| Droopy wrote: | | poopylungstuffing wrote: | | it made me think that I wasn't really an aspie. |
Me too. Like Orwell said, it was a bit exaggerated. I saw some things in both of them that reminded me of myself some but nothing solid. If noises get to me I usually start chanting to myself like "I gotta get outta here, I gotta outta here" until I am away from the noise. I figure it's Hollywood so it had to be exaggerated otherwise the average NT viewer would see one simple thing and say "Well I do that". |
I think that I forgot the girl was spot on me, apart from her meltdown in the fair it wouldnt be so loud and public.
I don't know but I think maybe josh harnet was exgaggerated
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Just saw 'mozart and the whale' what did u guys think? |
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| wob182 wrote: | | Apparently the girl I forget her name is my twin, we even laugh the same. :S |
For a minute I thought you actually meant she is your twin and I was just sitting here thinking "how can you not realise if someone is your twin?". Then I realised what you meant and felt stupid lol.
Anyway I liked the film, I think it shows that everyone with AS is different which alot of NT's don't seem to understand. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:54 am Post subject: |
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I've never seen it, but I imagine that AS-AS relationships can very by person, so it wouldn't be accurate to judge all of them on the movie.
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I liked it. I've never identified more with a fictional character than I did with Donald Morton.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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The only clip i've seen of the film was posted on YouTube by a guy called Aspie182. He had it as a "Bad Example of Autism in Movies" and he obviously hated the movie.
Buuuuuuuuuut...
I dunno, I kinda liked it. The clip I saw had a flashback to when she was little and she started breaking records because everyone was so excited about someone breaking a record in the olympics. That's something I would have probably done. I have similar experiences to that.
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I've watched it (more than once) and even though there's something, "not quite right" about the acting, I'd still watch it again. In fact, I might watch it again, today.  |
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It was a little over done, but good.
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