I think the part I like is that it posits- what if autism were simultaneously painful but valuable? Useful? Even a little Heroic? Without forcing social acceptance, without making the autistic person magically able to navigate the world easily.
It’s wrong on every level about reality, but most movies are anyways so that’s normal for movieland.
I dunno, I liked it. It’s simple and nice. What if your pain were useful for something?
I didn’t feel like he was believably autistic. Can’t explain why. It felt like he was playing a character that represented a non autistic person’s view of a person with autism.