Thanks for all the really nice comments, I'm so surprised by all the brilliant reactions to this video. I totally didn't expect so much love. This has definitely made all the effort I put into this worth it. In September I'm going to university for film so I will totally continue to update this channel whenever I feel like it. A small thing I forgot to add was that Stanley Kubrick and Mozart have been post humorously diagnosed by historians and experts on there life. Some may not agree with this and I feel weird about it but nevertheless wanted to include it. Also this is all just my personal opinion on the matter and I know others may differ from mine, so I'd love to hear you voice yours in the comments. I know not everyone like calling it a disorder.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Dale Cooper and autistic representation if you ever wanted to make a video on that. This is a great video!

This was phenomenal, insightful, relatable, and contains the delicious deadpan dig, "Rain Man is ultimately the story of a narcissistic con man-- played by Tom Cruise --who may not have been aware that the cameras were rolling..." Yep, Cruise is the man of 1000 red flags for me too...

Hard to believe this is a college project. Definitely keep it up and I hope you get a good grade! I’ll definitely watch if you continue to make videos whichever way you go.

I would LOVE a deep dive on Cooper. He’s been my favorite since the day I first watched twin peaks

Excellent documentary! I still get asked my “super thing I can do”. This is well done. Keep up the good work!

this aligns with so much of my interests. I have, in the past, often searched for any sort of analysis of film and TV characters and their potential autism and here it is, you made it! finally!

Fantastic video and analysis. I look forward to seeing what you make next.

This showed up in my algorithm and I feel like I’ve learned quite a bit in such a short amount time. Great work, would love to see more analysis of autism in the media.

Great video, very professional, very relatable, some great examples of the good, the bad and the ugly! I like the character Bones in … Bones! Keep raising awareness and dispelling myths and good luck with the college work.

Time to watch Twin Peaks again... You did a fantastic job on this video. Lots of things I wasn't aware of.

This is incredibly well made, the editing doesn't distract from the content and further drives home the point of the video. I admire your ability to present.

@SolomonCainFilms

Ай бұрын

Cheers, I definitely need to get better at editing. But I'm blown away by all the positive reactions to this video.

This is so well made. Thank you!

Very good video, I’m so happy you popped up on the algorithm! +1 subscriber!

Great project and I hope it does well. Maybe you'll go on to do TV documentaries in future?

Yessss agent cooper! Also so many other characters I feel might be autistic, log lady, Gordon Cole, Albert, Andy, dr jakoby, major briggs, possibly Audrey as well. It’s my fave show and one of my special interests.

Thanks for speaking on this and doing so much research. Film is one of my most intense interests.

This is an incredible video! I myself am also especially fond of Cooper, he's such a great character. This is an excellent essay, well done!

Coop is easily one of my favorite characters of all time. I never thought about him this way!!

Amazing video I loved being in it 😁😁

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This was great, thank you so much for the work you put in it!

Awesome essay! I look forward to seeing your future videos!

Only 1 complaint. When you have the time please can you produce a 3 hour version? A special request is to review Saga from the Swedish version of "The bridge". I think you will find many imperfections but especially across the whole series and as related to empathy, she portrays a varied and confusing but wonderful character. As an Autist who does feel I have too much empathy but it is often misguided or clumsy, I did feel for her as she tried to show how she cared but struggled a lot to share this.

i am sad abut robert deniro Also fair bit of positive portrayals, are from sherlock holmes coding, who was modled after doyles medical mentor, who, kindsa reads described like he probably was autistic, given how he is described as great teacher and great at his stuff, but also excentric, just reads autistic with how he writes sherlock mannerisms.. Its kinda said that that unintended are the best :(

This is amazing! it’s a very good detailed documentary! 🔥

I agree about being open about our autism. I discuss this in my recently published book 'Living with Autism Undiagnosed. '

Fantastic! I would like to hear more. One of my favourite movies and characters is Amélie Poulain (from Amélie 2001) and I think the other characters and the movie overall are pretty "autistic"

this was rad ty

Great video, subscribed and looking forward to more.

Really good work bud 🎉

This is amazing 👏

great! many of the main characters in a kind of spark are canonically autistic, though.

I didn't know I was autistic until my late 30s, but I was always naturally drawn to autistic characters in film. I used to use 'Arnie Grape' as a screen name online and I've always had a framed picture of him climbing the water tower in my room. Lol I'm very interested in autistic representation in media but at the same time, I get annoyed with how it's often discussed. For example: I don't like the idea that the actor "should be" autistic in real life. That's just silly. Actors act. I also feel that a lot of times, people are just being nitpicky and looking for any excuse to find something "problematic" or something that "reinforces negative stereotypes". Not every representation will be perfect. Some will be bad. One of my personal favorites is the character of Percy from that silly Jennifer Lawrence rom com called "No Hard Feelings". ...and they actually didn't even mention autism once in the film. It's just obvious that he's on the spectrum to those of us in the know. ..and I just happened to relate to him deeply on many levels. I don't think that Sheldon Cooper is even remotely the best representation of autism, but I don't watch that show, so I also don't really care. We have freedom of choice and I can change the channel, so I find no need to get offended. I also just don't feel the need to "see myself" every time I turn on a movie. I'm not narcissistic enough to care _that much_ about representation. I don't even mind bad guy autistic characters like Ben in The Accountant. Some of us ARE bad guys, so in my mind, it is accurate representation. "If you've met one autistic person, you've met one autistic person." Right??? Some characters are better representations of autism than others. I'm just glad we have so many to choose from now. That's the part I like to focus on. At the end of the day, they're just movies and TV shows anyway. I'm FAR more concerned with the medical industry finally pulling their heads out of their bums and learning how to properly diagnose ASD - because they ruined a lot of lives during my generation and the ones before it. I was drugged, put into the "troubled teens" industry, and given a life sentence of C-PTSD because my doctors were too ignorant about autism to diagnose it - so I'm not too terribly upset when some random movie character doesn't represent my disorder in the most perfect way possible. Lmao It just doesn't feel too important by comparison. Also, fun fact: The man who inspired Rainman turned out to not even be autistic. Lol He was re-diagnosed with some other disorder after the film was made. I agree that the movie had some pretty terrible messaging in it, but what do we expect? It was made in the 80s. I mean, If you think watching that was triggering, just be glad you didn't actually live through it. Things are so much better now. (I'm not trying to be contrarian or pick apart your video BTW. I'm just offering my subjective take on the topic in general.)

the posthumous armchair diagnosis of Stanley Kubrick is controversial. Personally, a lot of things I've heard about him, like refusal to say what he means while directing and manipulating people, seem like anything but autistic.

@SolomonCainFilms

26 күн бұрын

Yes I meant to include that it was posthumous. I don't like posthumously diagnosing people but having read the Kubrick archives, listening to countless interviews, hearing his wife talk about his habits and seeing so many medical professionals talk about the possibility of his autism I felt as though I should include it. His films are a special interest of mine and are so meticulously crafted, with an overly obsessive amount of detail that is just so impressive to me. Even my therapist thought Kubrick was autistic. Also Mozart is another person were thousands of historians believe he was autistic too. Thanks for pointing this out.

Pretty good video, but the commentary about "straight white cis men" is rather derogatory and racist. Exchange that to "lesbian black women" and I feel you'd never put that online. I found it weird in a video where you put so much emphasis on emotions and empathy, to put such commentary. But that's my only caveat, and obviously, everyone's entitled to their own worldview and opinion, so you might disregard this random, online commentary. None the less, keep up the passion. 👌

@SolomonCainFilms

Ай бұрын

What my friend said was not derogatory in the slightest, they were simply stating a fact that there aren't many portrayals of autistic people of colour and especially of the LGBTQ+. This is rather strange considering A large percentage of autistics are queer, in fact my friend is non binary.

@AsterLea

Ай бұрын

Autistic people aren't just lesbian black women. That's an accruate statement and not any more racist or derogatory to say than what was in the video, it's just that no one would say that because there isn't an issue with most autistic representation in media being just of lesbian black women.

@clicheguevara5282

28 күн бұрын

@@SolomonCainFilms By default, part of being in a minority is not getting as much representation as people in the majority do. Part of being in a collection of tiny sub minorities is that you may not get _any_ media representation. It's just maths and averages. If you're an paraplegic deaf Chinese Muslim with autism, a 155 IQ, and an obsessive special interest in the heat vents at the bottom of the ocean, you probably won't see too many representations of yourself on Netflix shows. Lol It kind of just is what it is. That's why people shouldn't get TOO wrapped up in the minority aspect of their identity. I'm so, so much more than just a cis white autistic American male.

@MantasticHams

23 күн бұрын

Not racist in the least.

@MantasticHams

23 күн бұрын

@@clicheguevara5282 Yes but there's been plenty of statistics floated around about how often these marginalized categories are portrayed in media compared to how many of the mexist and those numbers never match up. Its good that its at least subtly changing and your argument is to ignore it and not allow it to change basically. Also i don't really think its your place to tell people how much they should value any one part of their identity, that sentence comes off really really bad, man.