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Love on the Spectrum (2019)
Mixed review from an autistic woman
I am autistic like the characters in the show. I liked it for its funny moments and the refreshingly honest and intimate interviews with the participants. However, I have some criticisms - the main one being that they always seemed to match people with other autists. But there are plenty of successful relationships between neurotypical people with autistic people, so it seemed a bit presumptive and condescending to think that the best match for an autistic person is another autistic person. I hope that future episodes are less prescriptive as to whom the participants "should" be dating. Personally, I prefer to date neurotypical people because I like to have someone to help me interpret what is happening in social situations. Also, I've had casual sex too, and that is not covered in the show. Not all autistic people are interested in those wholesome "take it slow" relationships *all* of the time. Like it is with most people, there is a mix of encounters and emotional/physical needs among neurodivergent folks, perhaps even moreso because autistic people frequently don't feel a need to follow the status quo.
Maliglutit (2016)
Wow
I loved this film. I loved what it did to me! At the outset of the film, the slow, gentle pace and the beautiful minimalist scenery slowed my pulse, made my breathing even, relaxed my muscles. As the film went on, I found myself more and more swept up in the events, until I was literally sitting on the edge of my seat gasping at the finale. The way in which Kunuk introduces a small plot element that reveals a character's psychological landscape right before an extremely long shot featuring natural landscapes is a request for you to ruminate on the emotional, spiritual, and social situations of the characters. To get caught up in their lives. To care about what happens to them. To put you on the EDGE of your seat by the end of this extremely slow-paced film. It's masterful. I've never seen anything else like it.