Adam

This film was a bitter pill to swallow. I liked it, I really did, it was just not a feel good movie. It was sweet and in many instances funny, but the ending was painful. I loved Hugh Dancy's portrayal of Adam, he is a really great actor. I've known a couple of people with Asperger's and my cousin is autistic so I feel like I can say it was an accurate representation. So many parts were so powerful, the mirror scene or when he finds out she lied, in the lawyer's office, or him in the doorway, the extreme anxiety of it, the literalness of his feelings. Everyone always talks about how they feel in metaphors but he put those feelings into real actions, it was scary yet understandable, that's what was so scary. Beth's character was very interesting and intense also. It would be so hard to love someone and never know if they loved you back, to never be able to share feelings with them and have them understand. I just can't even imagine what it must be like, but it was so inspiring, seeing them learn from each other and grow. They both started out so selfish and immature and by the end they had grown up so much, so independent and with purpose, but separate. That's the part that hurt, they meant so much to each other, but they had to be apart to learn how to be better for each other, and then they weren't together. But I think they ended up together, I think that's what the end alluded to. And it was so great, those last 30 seconds, when Adam opens the book and you see his reaction and you know he's just realized something, but you don't know what it is. 'Mind-blindness' like he says, but this time it's the audience that doesn't know what he's thinking, I loved it.