![]() ![]() He shot radiant scenes of roiled seas, gentle rain, a lighthouse flaring its yellow beam across the night sky, caterpillars nosing about a tree trunk. Higashida somehow managed to translate his reality into words, but for Rothwell the challenge was then to take those words and translate them into image and sound-the language of cinema. In another passage, he describes being assailed by involuntary movements: “It’s as if my whole body belongs to someone else, as if I’m remote-controlling a faulty robot.” ![]() But when I’m jumping it’s as if I’m shaking loose the ropes that are tying me down.” “So when something happens that affects me emotionally my body seizes up as if struck by lightning. “I react physically to feelings of sadness and happiness,” Naoki writes, the lines voiced in the film by actor Jordan O’Donegan. ![]() 'The Reason I Jump' Trailer: Documentary Shines Spotlight On Nonspeaking Autism The Reason I Jump director Jerry Rothwell AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis ![]()
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