x + y 2014
- Director: Morgan Matthews
- Based on the novel: no
- Cast: Asa Butterfield, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Rafe Spall, Jo Yang, Martin McCann, Jake Davies, Alex Lawther, Orion Lee, Alexa Davies, Edward Baker-Close
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Asa Butterfield – The Space between Us, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ender’s Game, Hugo, Merlin, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Son of Rambow
- Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water, The Hollow Crown, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go, An Education, Happy-Go-Lucky, Little Britain, Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky, Vera Drake
- Eddie Marsan – Their Finest, River, Filth, The World’s End, Jack the Giant Slayer, Sherlock Holmes 1&2, Tyrannosaurus, Merlin, Heartless, Happy-Go-Lucky, V for Vendetta, Vera Drake, 21 Grams, Gangs of New York
- Rafe Spall – What If, The World’s End, I Give It a Year, The Life of Pi, Prometheus, Hot Fuzz, A Good Year, Shaun of the Dead
- Martin McCann – The Fall
- Jake Lawther – The Imitation Game
- Alexa Davies – Mamma Mia Here We Go Again, Absolutely Anything
- Orion Lee – The Last Jedi, Skyfall
- Why? The cast.
- Seen: 13 February 2021.
Nathan (Butterfield) is autistic which
makes his childhood problematic. It’s made worse by an early tragedy. He’s a
maths genius and as a teen-ager he meets up with Martin (Spall), a grouchy
teacher with advancing multiple sclerosis. He trains Nathan for the
International Maths Olympiad.
Nathan’s mother Julie (Hawkins) has
trouble coping with his autistic characteristics and her own loneliness. She’s
hurt when Nathan heads off to Taiwan for a maths camp without so much as a
good-bye, much less a hug.
To Nathan’s horror he’s teamed up with a
girl, Zhang Mei (Yang). But she teaches him a thing or two.
It’s a sweet film about struggling with
being a complete outsider on several levels, trying desperately to be a little
normal, or even recognise what normal is.
How did it end though? I’m not sure…
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