I was watching the first one recently and wondered what diagnosed people thought of the movies portrayal. So +1 regarding this question.
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Scattered thoughts about the movie:
And to answer the question "how well is autism represented?", I'd probably say it was "fine". I actually think it was worse in this movie because it played too much into the neurodivergent superpowers trope. On the other hand, that could look empowering to some.Obviously spoilers
I don't like the voice that Ben Affleck is using in the sequel, it sounds so forced, his performance was a lot more believable in the first one. The whole whole center of autistic children/teens working as hackers was also hard to believe. And Justine using the expression "normie" was pretty cringe.
And then there's the "acquired savant syndrome" which made a regular mom into a super assassin, that was also hard to believe.
But as a sequel, maybe not the worst. Jon Bernthal did a lot to pull it up several grades, but the first one was definitely better.
Ben Affleck took a bit of a backseat in this one, and he didn't do too bad besides how he sounded almost like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the motel.
I had no idea this movie was about Autism in any way, also, Ben Affleck sucks.
The autism component wasn't explicit in the second movie, but it was established in the first.
Why does Ben Affleck suck?
Go watch Gigli, or anything else he’s in. He’s such a dry turd.