Just saw 'mozart and the whale' what did u guys think?

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11 Oct 2008, 10:25 pm

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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11 Oct 2008, 10:29 pm

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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11 Oct 2008, 10:38 pm

Some of it was a bit exaggerated, but overall not too bad.


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11 Oct 2008, 11:07 pm

it made me think that I wasn't really an aspie.



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11 Oct 2008, 11:09 pm

It was okay but I've no desire to watch it again



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11 Oct 2008, 11:12 pm

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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12 Oct 2008, 1:37 am

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".



12 Oct 2008, 1:48 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 8:04 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 8:39 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 9:54 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 10:04 am

I liked it. I've never identified more with a fictional character than I did with Donald Morton.


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12 Oct 2008, 11:12 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 11:45 am

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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12 Oct 2008, 11:49 am

It was a little over done, but good.


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12 Oct 2008, 1:27 pm

I enjoyed it, and so did my bf. I can relate to Donald's aversion to eye-contact. Though I've always coped by wearing hats and sunglasses so I can look at the floor instead.
The only real issue I had was when Donald played the prank on Izzy by having her pet iguana crawl into her bed when she was in it. I was told iguanas have very sharp claws. In real life, she could have been scratched up pretty bad...right?