Aspie Movies?

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So Ghost World , Crumb, and American Splendor are all aspie films?,,, is there a link between underground comics and aspergers?

The movie that struck me most deeply was "Joe vs the Volcano".

I really relate to Joe, and when the movie was relased I could REALLY relate. He's a guy in a dead end job, working in a dingy room, under flurescent lights, wasting away plagued by hypocondria. What he REALLY wants to do is live his life, but he's afraid to, so he sits there day after day feeling utterly miserable.

Then he's diagnosed with a "brain cloud" which he's told is fatal. According to his Dr he has six months to live. This knowledge essentially frees him to finally do what he wants to do.

Many times as a teenager I almost hoped that one of my imaginary ailments would turn out to be a terminal disease so I could finally live my life. That sounds insane, but I felt that if I had nothing to lose I could actually take a chance and try living for a while, even if for only a few months. So when I saw this movie I instantly related to the main character.

The movie was missmarketed at the time as a slapstick comedy starring Tom Hanks. It has some comedy but underneath that is a very serious core message.

I watched that movie countless times on VHS, and now I have it on DVD. I don't relate to it quite as much because I'm no longer living alone and working at a miserable job, but it still has a powerful effect on me. Now if only I could apply it to my life and go out and take a chance...

This might be of interest

http://www.aspires-relationships.com/ar ... erence.htm

The Matrix and the Royal Tenenbaums are good Asperger movies...

The Matrix sequels are crappy... but the original has this lovely cyberpunk ambience...

I'm pretty sure that the main character in "Punch Drunk Love" is supposed to have some sort of high-functioning autism, even though they never mention it in the movie. He's socially incompetent, wears the same suit every day, has unusual mannerisms, takes things quite literally (note the very first scene in the movie), and gets upset very easily. I fell in love with that movie, since I really relate to that character. Incidentally, he's played by Adam Sandler. I liked Sandler's comedies, but after seeing this movie, I had so much respect for Sandler as an actor. He's really believable as this socially isolated character falling in love for (probably) the first time. Best movie ever IMHO.

I second "Punch Drunk Love" and "Amelie". I am glad I am not the only one that noticed those two.

Others-

Brazil
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being There
Little Voice
Benny and Joon
The Fisher King

There is a trailer up for "Mozart and the Whale"-

http://www.mozartandthewhale.com/

Kind of like the couples in the above films; if they met at an aspie meetup.

Never Been Kissed is another one..

I have not seen "Punch Drunk Love" yet ; I will try to.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" is also very aspie, indeed.

Movies-
Welcome To The Dollhouse
Miracle Run (I think they're HFA, but I can relate a lot to the high school part)
Anime-
Serial Experiments Lain
TV Shows-
Lizzie McGuire- My younger sisters watch this, and I think the char. Gordo acts Aspie (he has odd obsessions frequently: the 1920's, D&D (not odd), Airplanes, World Wars, the brain and he frequently messes us socially)

Has anyone seen a really disturbing goth/teen/horror movie called "May"?

Basically it's about a socially isolated teenage girl with an obsession with dolls who fancies a young bloke, gets rejected by him, gets approached by a "predatory" lesbian then rejected by her as well, and so decides to kill them (along with a few other people) and stitch parts of their bodies together to "make herself a friend"...

the disturbing thing about it for me is that a) the first half of the film just seems like a very gothic teen drama, with a VERY Aspie-ish main character... and then it turns into a horror film with evil dolls, dismemberment etc, and b) that i identified so strongly with the main character, and she (at the start of the film) so closely resembled myself...

I reckon the director of the film must have known someone with AS (even if he/she didn't know what condition they had) and based the character May on her, because *everything* about her (physical mannerisms, facial expressions, social isolation, innocent-but-disturbingly-intense affection, talking about "gross" things at "inappropriate" times, inability to realise that someone was coming on to her) was totally AS... and i don't know whether to like the film or not because of it...

there are probably other films i can think of, but that was one of the most recent films i saw and it just stuck in my mind...

Pretty much everything David Lynch did in my opinion strongly relates to people with asperger.

Starting with Eraserhead (Henry X) and Elephant Man (John Merrick), to others where often more than one character could be aspies.

Blue Velvet, The Straight Story, Lost Highway...

Even his short movies, like the Grandmother shows traces of asperger.

David Lynch himself in my opinion is probably an aspie. He's obsessed with certain textures and shapes and certain patterns and he seems a creature of habits. He's got rows of identical clothing, so he wears the same things most days. For 8 years, he went to the same restaurant at the same hour to order the same thing (choc milkshake + coffees).

Also (can't believe i forgot to mention it cos it's one of my favourite films!) Private Pile in Full Metal Jacket is a character i very strongly identify with, and the film makes a lot more sense if you see him as autistic IMO...