stressedmum Report post Posted January 24, 2009 and I was just watching the bit where they're driving down the road and Raymond is insisting that he needs boxer shorts from a particular K-mart. It struck me how similar it was to my son's insistence on where his clothes should come from and which particular style they need to be (this has caused a few problems, especially when Decathlon stopped selling a particular type of jogging bottoms lol). I had only watched Rainman once before now and that was before I had my children, I'm now ashamed to say that I found it quite amusing at that time (I hadn't heard of Autism at that point). Now, watching it kind of makes me feel a bit wobbly because I can see so much of my son in the film character but in day to day life I don't tend to notice his "quirks" quite so much. Does anybody else have odd moments of realisation like this? (all of that might sound odd, it's hard to get my thoughts to translate the same way on screen sometimes) Sharon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skye Report post Posted January 25, 2009 I too watched Rainman tonight. I don't think my husband was very impressed though. I thought I might see it through different eyes now, having a child on the Autistic Spectrum. I did notice a few things and I thought Dustin Hoffman did such a good job in the role. I particularly noticed how uncomfortable he looked in the Casino with all of the lights etc. Something that I would have almost certainly paid no attention to the first time around. Anyway, all in all I thought it was pretty good. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stressedmum Report post Posted January 25, 2009 Yes, it was very good Another thing that struck a chord was the straight forward answers to questions! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickyB Report post Posted January 25, 2009 I watched it a few weeks ago - DH and I had never seen it before, and we thought it was beautifully played by Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The bit which made us chuckle was when he was completely transfixed by Wheel of Fortune - DS doesn't watch kids telly much, but he's obsessed with game shows. It just happened that he was very keen on Wheel of Fortune at that particular time. It would have been interesting to see it before we had the kids, as I'm sure we would have viewed it in a very different way. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flipper Report post Posted January 26, 2009 Not so much Rainman - it's been a long time since I watched it - but we watched Snow Cake the other week, and while most of it wasn't really related to our experience, when the father read out from Vivienne's book (I won't spoil the plot if you haven't seen it) my wife and I both took deep gulps of recognition... Phil Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stressedmum Report post Posted January 26, 2009 Not so much Rainman - it's been a long time since I watched it - but we watched Snow Cake the other week, and while most of it wasn't really related to our experience, when the father read out from Vivienne's book (I won't spoil the plot if you haven't seen it) my wife and I both took deep gulps of recognition... Phil No, I haven't seen Snowcake yet, I will now definitely be adding it to my "to watch" list Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kathryn Report post Posted January 27, 2009 I haven't seen it for many years. I've got it on video and would like to see it again - I'm sure I will have a very different perspective on it now! K x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
