I'm a parent of a child with autism.From what I saw in this politically correct film and yes I mean politically correct. May I mention I'm a lefty and mostly politically correct myself but I truly despise when a politically correct idea can exploit too.
This film was completely exploitive of these children and their and sometimes abusive parents. The filmmakers were trying to show how even autistic children can do what everyone else can do. I suppose they were trying to make this like Special Olympics gone musical (If you get my point). Instead these filmmakers just used these kids and let their sad and depressed parents be in their phony and ridiculous film. This was a creepy doc and the bad part is that people completely don't understand autism and this film is making that lack of understanding worse. I hated it for that reason and the true thing it's politically correct but completely wrong and in this correctness the filmmaker were more interested in themselves and not interested at all about the people they were filming. It was just a cheap exploitive reality show that just fooled the unfortunate audience who looked at it and this audience (us) was thinking how sweet and real this was.. It was neither but a real lie like most reality shows are . Which this is what it really was and as I said before the autistic children and their parents were being used. Most of the kids looked so miserable and were forced to do things they could not do. Except for maybe one of them.
If you filmmakers and HBO do not know this you are just lying to yourselves and just get out of your artistic heads and really look at what you are doing and why, because you did not fool me. The producers at HBO and the filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves. I would give it a zero but I can't If there is a spoiler here I'm sorry to IMDb. I'm also sorry to to IMDb but this Doc got me very angry.
This film was completely exploitive of these children and their and sometimes abusive parents. The filmmakers were trying to show how even autistic children can do what everyone else can do. I suppose they were trying to make this like Special Olympics gone musical (If you get my point). Instead these filmmakers just used these kids and let their sad and depressed parents be in their phony and ridiculous film. This was a creepy doc and the bad part is that people completely don't understand autism and this film is making that lack of understanding worse. I hated it for that reason and the true thing it's politically correct but completely wrong and in this correctness the filmmaker were more interested in themselves and not interested at all about the people they were filming. It was just a cheap exploitive reality show that just fooled the unfortunate audience who looked at it and this audience (us) was thinking how sweet and real this was.. It was neither but a real lie like most reality shows are . Which this is what it really was and as I said before the autistic children and their parents were being used. Most of the kids looked so miserable and were forced to do things they could not do. Except for maybe one of them.
If you filmmakers and HBO do not know this you are just lying to yourselves and just get out of your artistic heads and really look at what you are doing and why, because you did not fool me. The producers at HBO and the filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves. I would give it a zero but I can't If there is a spoiler here I'm sorry to IMDb. I'm also sorry to to IMDb but this Doc got me very angry.
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