❄️Love is RED⛄️ 🍉’s review published on Letterboxd:
As someone who’s on the autism spectrum (yeah I haven’t mentioned it till now, but yes. I am autistic), there are a few films that truly captures the autistic experience like this one. Not only in just terms of the presentation and filmmaking that captures the uncanny and weirdly strange feeling an autistic person might experience, but also in terms of Bella’s characterization that in many ways that captures what’s like to be adventurous, feel discourage by people who don’t understands people who are on the spectrum, feel joyful about new experiences, her slow yet steady growth of controlling her emotions much like some autistic people can mange, and accepting that what the world and what other people tell her doesn’t matter and define who she is. All of which that feel true to the autistic experience and I’m so glad that a film like this capture what it feels to be autistic both in style and in substance.
Maybe I will do a dive in about the autistic perspective I got out of this in the future (EDIT 5 months later: I did). All I can say now is just, thank you Yorgos and Emma for this amazing masterpiece that captures what people like me go through and doesn’t come off as pandering or offensive to one’s experience.
