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Given the backlash the movie received, these audience reactions probably are valid (besides Pandering to the Base, I do not know what that's about), but could be rewritten to not rely as much on meta stuff. For example, in They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character, if they explained literally anything about Music's character that would make her compelling, because even most autistic people I know were never really interested in her character conceptually.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.I agree that they can be valid (I tried rewriting some of them), but Unintentionally Sympathetic probably isn't since I don't think Music was meant to be seen as unsympathetic. And bringing in real-life issues is just unnecessary.
Yeah, the reactions that this movie received definitely warrant mention. But as is every case with extremely controversial films, the entries have to be written like "this is how people feel" and not "here's why I think this sucks."
- "Seriously, Music and Maddie should have deserved better, and should have been not made as caricatures not just for autistic people, but also for disabled people in general.""If this film actually received any help from REAL autistic people..."
It's been said many times that this film has a pretty offensive portrayal of autistic characters, but the YMMV page shouldn't be filled with opinions-presented-as-fact or angry commentary like above. The first case should be written along the lines of "Many audience members feel that the film portrayed Maddie and Music as caricatures for autistic people instead of actual characters."
^ And yeah, the Unintentionally Sympathetic entry sounds more like it's just reiterating the same point under TWAPGP: that the film should have focused more on Music than Zu.
^^ Maddie is the name of Music's actress, so that part is just meta complaining.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.Bump because they added another example to the page:
- Harsher in Hindsight: A so-called "technique" used for calming down autistic people by physically restraining them, laying on top of them, immobilizing and make them have difficulty breathing? Isn't that similarly what killed George Floyd?
I'm not sure if this is even a valid example, but it's aggressively negative, and the last sentence has a bit of poor grammar again ("similarly" instead of "similar to") as well as unnecessary Bold Inflation.
It can't even be an example even if it wasn't overly aggressive- Floyd died before the film came out.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallYeah, but that doesn't make it hindsight. That requires viewers to see the work first. That's why it's Hindsight.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallBumping to add that they've made another negatively-charged, possibly ROCEJ-breaking edit
to Trivia.Music 2021, calling Sia a Hypocrite because she doesn't like Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch (even if we ignore that Hypocrite is on No Real Life Examples, Please!, I don't think that really even counts as hypocrisy).
It seems like this movie is a Single-Issue Wonk for Radiant Dawn Lord. I understand that most autistic people (including me) loathe the movie and Sia, but they're taking this a bit too far by using the wiki to vent out their frustrations, for a movie that's been out for months now.
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Radiant Dawn Lord has made a few very complainy edits, with grammar and wording issues, to YMMV.Music 2021. The most recent one, which was made today, is this one:
Others include the following (these have since been rewritten):
I have previously sent a notifier for the poor grammar on these past edits.
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