Is new Jennifer Lawrence Movie a good depiction of autism?

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From the early reviews I think it is a very sophomoric depiction of autism. People seem to either love it or hate it. I have not seen any reviews that "diagnose" him as ASD and find that surprising based on the trailer. I don't know if I will be seeing in the a theater, but will probably see it at some point.

The film is now available for streaming.

I saw it because of the “autism” angle and that the movie was filmed near where I live and the actor who played the 19 year old grew up here.

Autism:
The lead character is IMHO is coded Autistic. Autism is never mentioned, his traits are blamed on helicopter parenting. Besides being socially awkward he is a rule follower. Possibly relevant Andrew Feldmen the actor who plays the lead character chose Autism as his Bar Mitzvah project Autism because his cousin is Autistic.

Grooming double standard allegations:
A few critics have noted that a movie with the same plot where the 32 year old character is a man and the 19 year old character is a women would never be made today. In response to the grooming allegations Feldman said the characters are meant to be flawed doing cringy things.

The movie:
It is a combination of sex comedy and romantic comedy. The spoilers below deal with some of the controversies.

Sounds like a retread of "Failure to Launch" (mom and dad hire Sarah Jessica Parker to come on to their son, Mathew McConehey to get him to move out of the house).

I would sit through a lot of bad cinema just to stare at Jennifer Lawrence. And its prolly not that bad. Nineteen is legal age.

I didn't know of this movie until just now.
Several versions of the film are on their way down to my SSD at the moment.

I'll reserve judgment until I see it, but the basic premise had me entranced right away, as a weird dude that never even tried to get a girlfriend until age 30. The prospect of my parents paying a "hot chick" to bring me out of my shell earlier is a fun one to contemplate, but given their limited financial means, it wouldn't have been Jennifer Lawrence or her like.


If anyone here wants to see the movie, but doesn't want to send $$ to the producers of a film that they have political or moral objections to, let me know via PM, and I'll send you a download link (once it's ready).

Or if you're just poor or stingy with your $$, like me, either way...

Darron

Another character coded and written as "autistic" by neurotypical writers and played by a neurotypical actor? - No thanks. It looks just like all of the other really bad movies out there..

I watched as long as I could stand, which was to the part where the lovely Miss Lawrence gets naked on a beach. Not even a fully naked Jennifer could redeem this stinkeroo.

This colossal failure was so bereft of the merest whisper of meaning or humor that I was becoming convinced that I had died, and was witnessing the overture to my own well-deserved Eternal Damnation.

Never before has it been my misfortune to suffer so pseudo-cinematically, and I hereby pledge my undying love to anyone who will drag my festering carcass away from the gates of Hell upon which this travesty was projected.

Scream, oh, please scream into my poisoned ears to flush away the torturous dialogue that cascaded from the gaping maws of the humorless cretins that leered at me from the flaming screen, daring me to doubt them, caring not of the pain they caused, scarcely feigning stagecraft only to earn the very definition of ill-gotten gains.

My enduring faith in the magic of the Silver Screen has been shattered, my love for cinema dashed upon the craggy shores of this Isle of Despair amidst a Sea of Superfluous Digital Mediocrity.

Woe, woe unto those who succeed me into this Theater of Pain, heed my warning cries and run far, far away!

Oh, and yeah, Jennie got some tig ol’ bitties on her!

Darron