Josh Hartnett in Mozart and The Whale

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I think, Josh Hartnett in that film, and that film only, was quite sexy!

Yes, I in fact found everyone in the film realistic. Some of them reminded me strongly of people I've known and even family members.

yes i agree,motzart & the whale was dissapointing but to me in an other way. a bit stero-typical I think. stuff like that makes me rant alot.

I liked the movie and thought Josh Hartnett was very good in it, even thou i don't like him in any other movies. I'm also ticked off that he refused to do publicity for the movie and so contributed to the movie not doing well in the theatres.

Here is the trailer you can see where he is doing things with his hands.

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

OK, my husband and I just wantched that trailer and neither of us noticed him doing anyhting weird with his hands at all.

How cute..., it's an Aspie love story.

I'll wait for the Aspie crime story, thank you.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlOMimp9KDY[/youtube]
This is the part where they are in the AS support group and according to the comments ppl with AS find offensive because of the exagerrated and sterotypical character portrayals. Which i could see they're point

I just watched this movie! I had read a lot about it (mostly all from here) and was a little excited to actually watch it. It wasn't too bad. There wasn't any one character that I really connected with all that much, though it was interesting. I thought Josh Hartnett did well in the acting of his character, but I don't know many aspies (at least I don't think I do) so I cannot relate many of the aspie traits to people I know. Okay I'm ending this post here because I can't think of how to say anything else that I might say so I'll just stop.

bizarre,

Nothin' looks out of the ordinary to me either. :?

I have really liked Mozart and the Whale because I am reminded somewhat of my life. GalileoAce and I are similar yet not similar. We are married now and a lot of people had thought that each of us individually would not find someone to share our life with.
But we did and this is why Mozart and the Whale makes me happy. We had hard times together just like in the movie but everything worked out for us to get married.

Apparently Hartnett did make quite a study of aspies before filming, and for the most part appears to have mimicked some of the more obvious (stereotypical?) activities, symptoms, etc. Its also an interesting study of how two Aspies in a relationship can interact, at least for someone who is AS and has an AS partner like I do.

The very nature of film calls for a degree of exaggeration in the first place, and sometimes AS aspects are so subtle they can easily be missed (which sort of explains the number of recent adult diagnosis of a LIFELONG disorder.) Due to the vrey variable nature of the spectrum, its probably all but impossible to include everyones "favourite" parts of AS, and frankly if they did, the character would probably be almsot unable to function. The film itself isnt all that exciting, but its a damn sight more accurate for an NT than Rainman is. Sadly, it also reflects the media idea that "mentals" can only be a) soppy romantics b) comedic relief c) shockingly abused or d) maniacal serial killers or supervillains. (By preference I would most like to be D.) It would make a nice change to have an AS protagonist who saves the day and gets the girl etc etc. (Im not counting "Nerd" films here.)

Best line for me? "You two both have aspergers so you share a lifestyle and viewpoint, whereas i just irritate the s**t out of everyone. " (Probably not an exact quote as its been a while since i saw it. )

Wasn't too bad.