Regardless of whether you enjoyed the plot or acting or other typical measures by which most people will analyze it, I’m curious:

What thoughts do you have about the portrayals of autism in the movie?

Did you find that it was better or worse at representing autism to NT viewers than the first one from 2016?

Cross posted to: https://lemmy.ml/post/29326914

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    7 hours ago

    Scattered thoughts about the movie:

    Obviously spoilers

    I don’t like the voice that Ben Affleck is using in the sequel, it sounds so forced, his performance was a lot more believable in the first one. The whole whole center of autistic children/teens working as hackers was also hard to believe. And Justine using the expression “normie” was pretty cringe.
    And then there’s the “acquired savant syndrome” which made a regular mom into a super assassin, that was also hard to believe. But as a sequel, maybe not the worst. Jon Bernthal did a lot to pull it up several grades, but the first one was definitely better.
    Ben Affleck took a bit of a backseat in this one, and he didn’t do too bad besides how he sounded almost like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the motel.

    And to answer the question “how well is autism represented?”, I’d probably say it was “fine”. I actually think it was worse in this movie because it played too much into the neurodivergent superpowers trope. On the other hand, that could look empowering to some.