Adam

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Sharon
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I am still waiting for Adam to come out on video.  I have heard so many great things about this movie.  An Aspergian/Aspie guy and NT girl fall in love.

 

Adam the Movie Trailer

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here's the link to my blog post on it:

 

http://crackedmirrorinshalott.blogspot.com/2009/08/adam.html

There's a lot of links in my post to other things. here, have a teaser:

 

Back in early July (the 6th, to be exact) I went to a showing of Adam in DC at the MPAA building. There was a number of people in attendance, and most of the ones that I knew were involved in the Autism/Advocacy community [...]


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I saw it twice. Once in Omaha and once in Lincoln. Great movie.

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you can see it free (and legal) at....

www.watch-movies-online.tv

compliments of my husband, named Adam who watched Adam with me yesterday. i loved it; thought the character much more believeable than the mozart/whale characters

be careful of these sites; many contain viruses etc and many redirect you to less than desireable sites; this one has the police department ok Wink

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Watched this for the first time with my boyfriend the other day and loved it. We both laughed at the similarities between what they did and what we do. For example when Beth has to nudge Adam to let him know he has talked to much about one subject.

 

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The DVD was just released this past Tuesday as well, so enjoy!

Sharon
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I purchased the movie Adam over the weekend.  It was nice. 

It also reminded me of the differences between male & females on the spectrum. 

Realizing that Hollywood will always incorporate their own twists into movies helped me to keep some of the dramatics into perspective.  Still the same, I thought the movie was fine overall.

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I watched it yesterday (about 4 times) - I thought it was fantastic - but I can't find anywhere that has it for sale...

I couldn't stand the father of the girl

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I was going to write a review, but I think I left the notes for it back at my parents.  I'll write it when I can get to the notes again.

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I just watched Adam. Enjoyable movie. I thought the dynamic between the lovers was nicely worked out.

It reminds me in some ways of how my husband and I courted, although I am not NT. I come across as less severely affected than my husband, I guess. But it could be that because I'm a woman, I was socialized differently. I may be wired more to be aware of what's going on around me and concerned about other people's feelings. 

Another thing about my husband is that he displayed more obvious symptoms of AS as a young man (as no doubt I did also as a child and young woman) and now in his fifties is pretty subtle. He comes across as pretty intuitive and "with it."

One hope I have, and this is purely from a personal standpoint, is that I'd now like to see higher-functioning portraits, where the symptoms of AS aren't as "textbook" (abundant?) as in this movie or in Mozart and the Whale. Some of the Aspies I know are like the brilliant professor brother in the series Numb3rs, for example. They are intense but also charming, unaffected (direct), infectiously enthusiastic about what they love. I think about my dad, who is so brilliant that it frankly would not matter what odd quirks he might have. He gathers people to him because he is larger than life, a force of nature.

I suspect people like my dad have inspired movies and characters on TV, but because their real life counterparts either are not diagnosed or might not tell anyone if they were, these characters are rarely written from a conscious awareness about AS. And I find their characterizations somewhat inconsistent approximations at best, due to this lack of awareness, this sort of untended correction on the part of an NT writer, perhaps. 

 

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I really enjoyed this movie and I agree with the person would said it was better depiction of As than Mozart and the Whale. also spoiler Alert i like the fact that the did not end up together in the end. Mozart depressed me because it made me sad that i would never find some one so I liked that it did not work out for the charcters in adam. does that make any sense.