Rather than a biographical drama about an autistic protagonist, I would rather call it an educational film for growth. What kind of person is called "autistic"? In the traditional sense, they are those "patients" who focus on their own world and have difficulty communicating with others, which is what we call "children of the stars". The protagonist of this film is different from the typical "autism", showing talent that is different from ordinary people, but at the same time her heart is particularly pure.
The whole film uses black and white footage from the first perspective to show us the world in the eyes of the protagonist. This shooting method really shocked me. It turns out that everything in their eyes is so "fine and complicated". When the protagonist Temple was ridiculed, disliked, and disgusted, I could almost feel it, so when she met a professor who understood her; when she made friends with her blind roommate; when she broke through the door in her heart and stood in front of everyone to speak her own words. All my life... I felt a burst of warmth and emotion in my heart.
Since when, we also found that we have more or less "autistic" factors in ourselves. What the protagonist encounters in the movie is: ignorance, disrespect, and disapproval. And we, for various reasons, have forced ourselves to close the "heart door" and make ourselves fall into "autism".
Why don't we try to give more love to strangers or special groups of people. A casual understanding may be the courage to open the "heart door" for them. Why don't we try to be brave and try to open a door to face and accept our imperfect self.
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