This weekend we watched two films where the main characters have autism. The first film we watched was Chocolate, a Thai martial arts film (with transvestites!) where the heroine is able to learn martial arts from watching martial arts, and then goes to collect her sick mother's debts. (I'm leaving out sooooooo much of the plot.) After watching, they had a bloopers reel that showed that none of the stunts were CGI and were in fact, done by real people. The main character got the most damage since she was doing all of the fighting and never got a break, and she looked like a kid. That would accidentally get kicked in the face, or cut her hand open, etc. But she was really good. I couldn't figure out why the movie was called Chocolate, though.
The second film we watched was called Ben X, about a boy with Asperger's who's bullied at school and finally decides to do something about it. Chocolate was dubbed over; Ben X had subtitles.
I enjoyed Chocolate better than Ben X, because Chocolate had tons of martial arts sequences and cheesy music. Not that I actually enjoy cheesy music, but if I'm going to have suspended disbelief, Thai mafia transvestites and cheesy music lighten up an otherwise grim and graphically violent (did you see Kill Bill Volume One? It was like that, but without being hilarious) movie. Ben X was depressing in its realism.
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