![]() Aptly enough, it’s a work that enlightens and informs but that is also ravishing to behold.įaced with the fact that Higashida, now in his twenties, doesn’t want to appear onscreen 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. ![]() ![]() But those who have will feel deeply grateful that Rothwell, the film’s producers Jeremy Dear and Stevie Lee (who both appear in the film with their son Joss) and all their collaborators have found such an elegant, luminous way to pay tribute to the book.Ī work of cinematic alchemy, by tinkering with sound (exquisitely designed by Nick Ryan) while DP Ruben Woodin Dechamps deploys macro and ultra-wide lenses in addition to off-kilter framing, it manages to evoke the sensory distortion, intense focus and literally different way of seeing for people on the autistic spectrum. Not that viewers necessarily need to have read Higashida’s playful, insightful prose beforehand. ![]() ![]() Now director Jerry Rothwell’s oneiric, sensuous documentary, also called The Reason I Jump, offers fans of the book an unexpected gift: Instead of a literal adaptation, Rothwell’s film is a supplement, an echo, a response that enriches the experience of the original work. ![]()
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