Sundance film review: Jerry Rothwell's autism doc TheReasonIJump
Everyone has a favorite book that we long to see adapted into a film so more people will know about the book and read it too. At the same time, we also dread the filmmakers will ruin it by misrepresenting or diluting the essence of what makes that book so special..
Faced with the fact that Higashida, now in his twenties, doesn't want to appear on screen himself, the filmmakers opt to expand the remit to documenting the experience of five young people with autistic spectrum condition who either don't speak at all or don't use conventional language to communicate. In the past, people like the ones met here were often considered so severely impaired they were simply institutionalized or even worse .
By way of contrast, Dear and Lee's son Joss, in his late teens, can speak quite fluently without tools, but his mind is so stirred and swept by his overwhelming sensory experience that his speech often seems incoherent and strange.
Finally, the film travels to Sierra Leone, where Jestina lives with her mother and father. Arguably the least able of the five young people we meet, Jestina is clearly deeply loved by her parents, who have started a special school for other children like her in Freetown. It's a vitally necessary project in a country where people with ASC are still suspected of being witches or possessed.
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