The stylisation does have a pragmatic use though. Here, Rothwell opts for a heavily-graded visual aesthetic which consequently makes the non-fiction sequences look less real. They aren’t mutually exclusive categories of course-this is after all a documentary film-but they do entail different qualities. It muddles the lines between documentary and film. Based on a book of the same name purportedly written (more on that later) by Naoki Higashida-a Japanese man with nonverbal autism- The Reason I Jump from director Jerry Rothwell follows the lives of people around the world who also have the disorder, a subset of autism defined by an inability to speak.Īlso featured throughout are their family members, including translator David Mitchell (not the comedian), who helped render Higashida’s prose in English.īlending interviews, a re-enactment of Higashida’s childhood, and photography montages doesn’t make for entirely successful filmmaking.
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