Thanks for sharing your interesting perspective on this movie. As I had commented on your previous post about this movie, HM seems like a rompy bromance to me. I don't think it is intended to make any deep analysis of difference. In fact, it seems to go out of its way to make Rocky (an utterly alien creature) into a cute, snarky, mascot, whose otherness is lost as he morphs into Grace's sidekick after a couple of language lessons.
Also wanted to point out that Grace was not just bullied into going on a likely suicidal space mission. He was assaulted, drugged and kidnapped.
I haven’t seen this movie and the book is in my TBR pile. I want to read it before I see it. As a NT person, I value your insight and perspective. Thank you for sharing your experience as a ND person and your expertise as a film critic. I’ll be starting this book today. Have you read it?
I feel like I’m rambling but mostly I just wanted to say I appreciate you and always having new things to think about.
Giving someone stereotypical autistic "traits" does not make them automatically autistic- it is how the character uses those attributes to their advantage, as well as how it disadvantages them, that matters. It has to be done in such a way that other autistic people can recognize them truly as part of the "tribe".
I mean, they’re fictional, so they obviously can’t really be autistic in some sense.
as with queer signaling in fiction, you can talk about what parallels there are and how the story handles those possibilities. but that doesn’t rule out other readings.
Thanks for sharing your interesting perspective on this movie. As I had commented on your previous post about this movie, HM seems like a rompy bromance to me. I don't think it is intended to make any deep analysis of difference. In fact, it seems to go out of its way to make Rocky (an utterly alien creature) into a cute, snarky, mascot, whose otherness is lost as he morphs into Grace's sidekick after a couple of language lessons.
Also wanted to point out that Grace was not just bullied into going on a likely suicidal space mission. He was assaulted, drugged and kidnapped.
I haven’t seen this movie and the book is in my TBR pile. I want to read it before I see it. As a NT person, I value your insight and perspective. Thank you for sharing your experience as a ND person and your expertise as a film critic. I’ll be starting this book today. Have you read it?
I feel like I’m rambling but mostly I just wanted to say I appreciate you and always having new things to think about.
I haven’t read it. and probably won’t given how much I disliked the film…
I loved _Hail Mary_ the book but have yet to watch the film. I almost always prefer the literary to the film
Giving someone stereotypical autistic "traits" does not make them automatically autistic- it is how the character uses those attributes to their advantage, as well as how it disadvantages them, that matters. It has to be done in such a way that other autistic people can recognize them truly as part of the "tribe".
I wrote about this here: https://focus966.substack.com/p/candace-agonistes
I mean, they’re fictional, so they obviously can’t really be autistic in some sense.
as with queer signaling in fiction, you can talk about what parallels there are and how the story handles those possibilities. but that doesn’t rule out other readings.