The Rain M Movie Analysis

***** Rain or shine, a classic movie is always something you can count on to make your day. The Rain man is beautifully woven tale with emotions: romance, frustration, suspense. Featuring: Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman and Valeria Golino. It’s a story

I’m sure we’re all familiar with this nostalgic story, where the main character (Charlie Babbitt) finds family and discovers life aside from money on this adventure. But let’s cut the crap, and get to the really “Juicy” parts, that really make this a good movie, the “autistic side” of things. Both Hoffman and Cruise get equal screen time, but we the audience, seems to attracted to see things the way Charlie Babbitt (Cruise) sees. However, there is equal
The doctor (Gerald R. Molen) describes autistic savants, as an individual who has disabilities with sensory inputs, difficulties communicating and learning, and they may not be able to understand their own emotions. He goes further into detail describing and autistic individual’s life, how it can be based off of routines and rituals, and the slightest change can be terrifying for the individual. Hoffman does well to portray this in the movie. When Charlie and Susanna (Valeria Golino) come for an unexpected visit, Raymond is distressed. And responds to the “routine breaking” by frantically muttering to himself. Charlie takes enjoyment in this and eggs on Raymond by touching his books. In today’s society the response to ridicule something for being different is quite normal, its society’s way of disproving something so people don’t continue doing it. It is society’s attempt to reconstruct social order when a social norm is broken. Another example of this is expressing anger or threatening the “stranger”, it discourages the odd behavior. An example of this is when people call victims with disorders retarded or idiot, as demonstrated by Charlie. The move does well in depicting some of challenges an autistic faces when confronted with society, such as discrimination. Furthermore, The Rain Man is an excellent movie because it also shows the strengths of autistic
You get to share in the anxieties, excitements, curiosity and creativity an autistic individual feels. The audience has a chance to share in the worries Raymond has in taking an airplane or driving on the highway. Hoffman really replicates how an autistic individual responds under those circumstances, screaming and muttering etc. And, the audience can experience a first-hand account of what it feels like to be worried about these small things we overlook all the time.

In conclusion, the rain man is by far the best movie about psychological disorders you can watch. It really puts you in the shoes of Raymond an individual with autism. And you get a full 360 degrees view of what life is like to have or to love a person with autism. You’ll never come across such a great movie again.

“Is it possible to have a relationship with an autistic person? Is it possible to have a relationship with a cat? I do not intend the comparison to be demeaning to the autistic; I am simply trying to get at something. I have useful relationships with both of my cats, and they are important to me. But I never know what the cats are