Review: "Blue Heron" — A Poignant Family Drama About Autism and Belonging
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A review of Sophy Romvari's film "Blue Heron," which follows a Hungarian-Canadian family in the late 1990s after a move to Vancouver Island. The review explores the film's themes of autism, family dynamics, and the burden of undiagnosed neurodivergence, while also reflecting on the reviewer's personal experience as an undiagnosed autistic child. The film is presented as a deeply personal and emotionally resonant family drama.
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bskyReview: "Blue Heron" — A Poignant Family Drama About Autism and Belongingmibih.wordpress.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledAs an undiagnosed autistic child, I can't imagine the burden I must have been on my parents growing up or whether knowing about Autism would have made any difference.
That is in the past for us now, but I suspect other families in this situation would have benefited from such information to do more for their children or siblings.
In the late 1990s, a family move to Vancouver island, comprising of Hungarian parents, only daughter Sasha, boys Henry and Felix, and el
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