Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2012 • 129 minute

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Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him. © 2011 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Graderings en resensies

This movie is all about the mind of a child. In fact, the movie is told so well that I had a hard time figuring out whether the child was disabled or not. If you wait through the detailed character development in the first part of the movie, the climax is well worth it. (I also appreciated it didn't completely validate the child's rebellion.)

This exceptional movie is about a child with Asperger's syndrome (one of the ASD or Autism spectrum disorders). He shows some of the classical features of the Dz such as difficulty with communication skills, and being obsessed about a particular object - in this case the key here found  after 9/11. In every other way he is highly exceptional.   His intellect is most likely comparable to the majority of Asperger's ppl and is in genius range. He is having a hard time dealing with the terror attacks.

This movie was beautiful. The kid in the movie lost everything that made his life stable. When the sands shifted, he reacted the only way he knew how. Those who have never been through such a tragic loss, can't comprehend the emotions this child went through. They dislike those that aren't like them which is sad and pathetic. This movie brings light and hope to even the smallest of things. It doesn't have to be so twisted and intense to be good. It's real, and that makes all the difference.