Over all, the movie was very realistic. Dakota Fanning did a really good job playing the roll of an Autistic girl. She shows a lot of the signs of being Autistic, not giving eye contact, having a few meltdowns, people trying to take advantage of her, she got easily confused, stuck to a routine, etc.
She was a Star Trek fan and she wrote a 400+ page script. However, most people who have Autism Spectrum Disorders are not good at wiring. They are also not usually very creative. Most Autistic people are very logical and they're usually really good at things like: Math and Science.
There were a few things they did not show in the movie which would of made it a little better like somebody pulling a joke on her and at least one situation where she would have said something, but had no "verbal filter".
People with Autism usually don't understand jokes. If someone would of told her a joke and she would of gotten really confused and not understand that it was a joke and most people would of found the joke funny or, better yet, if she would of taken the joke literally, someone says something for a joke, but she takes it seriously and actually thinks what the other person said was really true so she doesn't laugh. That would have made for a really good scene in the movie.
They did a really good job showing her journey of trying to get to LA to drop off her Star Trek script and having a lot of problems along the way.
Anybody that has an Autism Spectrum disorder should definitely see this movie.
Having Asperger's myself, I could really understand this movie and all the problems that the main character experienced. I could actually feel Wendy's pain on a lot of her experiences, because I've actually experienced some of the same or similar things.
(I saw a news paper article in a news paper from Los Angeles, the article had some pretty bad things to say about the movie. It said the movie wasn't very realistic. It did not do a good job showing what people with Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorders really experience everyday or how they truly act. However, from my personal experience of actually having an Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asperger's) myself, I must say, the person who wrote the article didn't know what they were talking about. From what people have told me about the things they've observed about me, my own experiences and research that I have done on Autism Spectrum Disorders, I can say, the movie was realistic. It was well worth 5 stars!!!)
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