My Thoughts On Adam

I know I said that I’d probably be gone here until Tuesday, at least, but I went to a movie the other night and I feel like I should say what I thought about it.

Not that you should take my word for it.

Because I’m not a movie critic.

And of all movies, this one is not one that I’m going to be able to be objective about. This movie is about a man with Asperger’s Syndrome. So, if you know my little family, then you know that we’re about hip deep into the Autism spectrum and therefore I must repeat the total lack of my objectivity here.

Because objectivity just isn’t going to happen.

So, here we go.

If I had to categorize the movie, I would say that it is a nice little romantic movie. The way that they shot New York made it look fantastic and the dialogue was well-written.

I liked it.

Hugh Dancy, the actor who plays Adam, did an admirable job in his portrayal of a man who has Asperger’s. He didn’t hit any bad notes there, as far as I’m concerned, and, let me tell you, I was looking. The other acting in the film was good, too. I especially liked Rose Byrne’s character, Beth, and the friend of Adam’s father, Harlan. I probably paid more attention to those characters because they were in close contact with Adam. Harlan, especially, seemed to “get” or “not get” Adam so perfectly depending on what was going on in the scene. Truly, his expressions of frustration mixed with exasperation topped off with humor were priceless and dead on.

Now, I don’t know if this will be for Hugh Dancy what Rainman was for Dustin Hoffman. Maybe it will. And I don’t know how it will be received by the Aspie community.

But I do think that it illustrated well the life of some one with Asperger’s. About the trials that are faced on top of all of the other trials that we all have….life, death, taxes, love when it works out, work, looking for employment, love when it doesn’t work out, having enough money, not wanting to move, having to move, friendship, telling the truth, and trying to just make it all come together into a neat little package that we call life.

But life is so rarely a neat little package. Life is messy, y’all.

When you have Asperger’s, well, life is sometimes a little messier.

But then life is beautiful, too.

And this film shows that.

My 2 cents.