The Reason I Jump
- 2020
- 1h 22m
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7.4/10
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Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.
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Everyone should see this movie, so we can understand autism, and stop treating Autism and autistic people badly
a must watch.
This starts a little slow, but once we meet the British family, it quickly becomes maybe the great autistic POV film ever made, one that will forever change how I think about the autism community. The spelling boards were mind-blowing...though I suppose my inspired astonishment at it serves as proof of my (and, I imagine, many other's) ignorance about autism. As the film says: "Neurotypicals are rubbish at understanding anything that isn't neurotypical."
This movie was stunning and impressive. I just saw it at Sundance and everyone walked out uplifted and overwhelmed. It's a must see.
10nadindag
Tears in my eyes.
This is such a beautiful film about autism. A must-see to understand the world of autistic people. Whatever is said about these people, they have feelings, intelligence and everything 'normal' people have in their personalities. Only their experience of expressing and seeing the world is different, would even say, to be more sensitive than us 'normals'. Their outbursts of anger and aggressiveness is only their expression of frustration and sadness for not being able to share anything with us 'normals'. How would you be yourself!!!
Dare I even say, these people are more authentic than many others on this globe.
This is such a beautiful film about autism. A must-see to understand the world of autistic people. Whatever is said about these people, they have feelings, intelligence and everything 'normal' people have in their personalities. Only their experience of expressing and seeing the world is different, would even say, to be more sensitive than us 'normals'. Their outbursts of anger and aggressiveness is only their expression of frustration and sadness for not being able to share anything with us 'normals'. How would you be yourself!!!
Dare I even say, these people are more authentic than many others on this globe.
You can see the love and craft in every frame of this movie. There were certain characters I would like to have seen more of, but I understand the constraints. The way it renders autism is very humanistic and he film does a really great job of bringing the viewer into this world. I saw it at the Hot Docs online and really wish I could have seen it on the big screen
It reminded me of another film I saw at Sundance a few years ago called Notes on Blindness which does a phenomenal job of 'seeing' the day to day of what a blind person's life could be like in an extraordinary way.
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Written by Bensedira Deylene
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- Därför hoppar jag
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- Arlington, Virginia, USA(Ben and Emma)
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- Gross worldwide
- $115,601
- Runtime
- 1h 22m(82 min)
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- 2.35 : 1
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