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Such a perfect movie about what its about. Especially impressive how sensitive it is to traits this kind of guy often has, comorbities of this sort of character, even if they're sort of tangential to the core issues.
Him having classic asbergers sensory sensitivity, being easily disgusted and distracted and wanting a high degree of personal control over his environment when she's drinking the milkshake is such an astute inclusion and so well portrayed. That's exactly what its like. It dovetails with his central malfunctions and contributes to them-low tolerance for other people unless its totally on your terms is not conducive to happy, lasting relationships, but its not something every guy like this has. Its not inherent to the subject of the movie. But Its something a lot of guys like this have and its not something I've ever seen captured so well.
Also nails a very particular kind of decently high IQ neurotic fantasy. Like he's smart enough to be self conscious and constantly criticise himself in his own head, his problem was never that he was dumb, but his dissatisfaction in life compels him to live in a world of fantasy. So his fantasies are a negotiation between his self consciousness and his desires. He knows its unrealistic for him to be as smart as his imaginary girlfriend when it comes to her own field of study, so the fantasy goes out of its way to say yeah she knows more than him about it, but for a laymen he's impressively astute, he "keeps up"
