Wretches & Jabberers (2010)
- Directed by
- Gerardine Wurzburg
- Genre
- documentary film, propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two autistic men who have limited verbal speech travel to different countries with their aides. They meet other autistic people and try to change how the world sees them.
contemplativeupliftingeye-openinggentlethought-provokinghopefulpersonalintimate
What happens
Wretches & Jabberers is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg and produced by Wurzburg and Douglas Biklen.The film is about two autistic men, Larry Bissonnette and Tracy Thresher, who travel with their aides to Sri Lanka, Japan, and Finland to meet other autistic people with limited ability to converse verbally, and to challenge attitudes about disability and intelligence. The film's title comes from a comment made by one of the people they visit in Finland, who groups people into "wretches" like all of them and "jabberers" who speak easily. It opened in the United States on April 1, 2011. Notably, the men use facilitated communication to communicate, which is a scientifically discredited technique. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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