![]() ![]() Hagashida’s book lends a structural and spiritual spine to the film, with key extracts from the English translation - co-written by “Cloud Atlas” author David Mitchell - delivered in running voiceover, binding the otherwise diverse experiences of five subjects spread far across the globe. Buoyed by the enduring profile of its source material, “Jump” should complete a popular festival run disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic (though it recently played the digital edition of Hot Docs), to land comfortably in arthouses, streaming platforms and TV schedules alike. ![]() ![]() Rothwell’s film is most comparable to the BAFTA-nominated doc “Notes on Blindness” in its efforts to make cinematically immediate a condition that many imagine in blandly literal terms. Rather, it counts significantly on the viewer’s own capacity for empathy and interpretation, evoking autism through impressionistic detail instead of pedantic medical explanation. ![]() It’s easy enough to see how “The Reason I Jump” nabbed an audience award at Sundance in January - it’s as emotionally piercing as it is beautiful to behold - but that’s not to say the film plays to the gallery. ![]()
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