![]() ![]() So in the resulting film, we meet five autistic people from around the world. To adapt The Reason I Jump for the screen, director Jerry Rothwell opted not to simply replicate what’s in the text (a young boy, Jim Fujiwara, stands in for Higashida) and add some expert commentary, but to also immerse the audience in the experience of his subjects. What it feels like to observe how others view him and treat him. ![]() The way memories and events of the past forcefully exist in the present. The way his attention is attracted to details of an object, rather than the whole. In the book, Higashida describes what it is like to be him. The book was translated from Japanese to English in 2013 by Keiko Yoshida and her husband, the novelist David Mitchell. The documentary shares a title and draws inspiration from the 2007 bestselling nonfiction book by Naoki Higashida, who was just 13 when he, aided by his mother, wrote about his life as a nonverbal autistic person. The team behind The Reason I Jump understands this rule well, to the film’s great advantage. If you’re going to make a movie, make it a movie. Movies aren’t just vehicles for messages or information delivery they are immersive, sensory-rich experiences that let us submerge ourselves in someone else’s experience. There’s an axiom among critics that if a documentary would be more effective as a magazine article or book, then it shouldn’t also be a film. ![]()
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