The Reason I Jump

#15,13012

Year: 2021

Runtime: 82 min

Language: English

Director: Jerry Rothwell

Echo Score: 86

Documentary

This poignant documentary explores the inner lives of nonspeaking autistic individuals, providing a rare and intimate look at their experiences. Based on Naoki Higashida's influential book, the film combines his unique perspectives with the stories of five young people. Through their experiences, the documentary reveals a sensory universe often characterized by overwhelming sensations, but also moments of joy and connection, ultimately challenging conventional understandings of autism and neurodiversity.

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A Thirteen-Year-Old Nonspeaking Autistic Writer Answers Questions about Movement, Language, Memory, Emotion, and the Gap between Inner Experience and Outward Assumptions · by Naoki Higashida, KA Yoshida, David Mitchell

Why this book?

Jerry Rothwell's documentary The Reason I Jump uses Naoki Higashida's questions, observations, and translated passages as a conceptual and spoken framework for following several nonspeaking autistic people and their families across different countries. Higashida is not the film's biographical subject, and the documentary does not reproduce the book's question-and-answer sequence as a narrative; it creates sensory audiovisual passages and distinct contemporary lives around related experiences of communication, movement, and perception. The book supplies the title, first-person language, themes, and challenge to neurotypical assumptions, while the film expands those ideas through other participants.

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