Temple Grandin Movie Analysis

Temple Grandin is a biopic movie produced by Scott Ferguson, that was released on February 6, 2010. Temple Grandin (starring actress Claire Danes) was born August 29th, 1947. The film depicts her life as an autistic child growing up in a world, that at the time knew little about autism and/or how to handle it. Ferguson makes an effort to clearly capture the feelings and behavior as well as the profound effect that her behavior has on her family and community, as well as disprove the common misconception that people with autism are not smart and will never be able to make an impact on the world.
Temple becomes a testament to the fact that just because you suffer from autism does not mean you wont be able do anything with your life. Thanks to …show more content…
Like the previous year she was faced with difficulty at the beginning. At this time in age it was unheard of for a girl, let alone an autistic one to go to school for such a thing. The men tried doing everything they could to get her to quit. Temple soon after proved her rightfulness to be there after witnessing the brutality and trauma the cattle went through when getting ready to be dipped before going into the slaughter house.The producer showed how she could not only visualize exactly how the cattle see and feel but how she noticed the change in their voices and physical movement, when they are clam, happy, or frightened. The movie 's most disturbing scenes relate to the treatment of cattle as they were raised and prepared for slaughter: graphically showing them being prodded, trapped in tight areas, herded against their will, and dragged squalling through mud. Through out the film they show some of these incidents from her heightened perspective, as they appear especially cruel. Temple was able to notice that the cattle were calmed when they walked in circles and away from the handlers. From these observations and numerous setbacks she had to go through in order to get her visualize the flight zone of cattle, “a handler outside the flight zone allows them to go in circles in a calm and orderly matter, but stepping into the flight zone panics them and they change from soft moo’s to loud mooing, prey animals don’t make loud noises that draw attention to them unless they are they are trying to warn other members of the herd. Thus, they are spooked and that makes them not act straight. They get bruised, scrapped, downed, and that all cost money. It takes a good half hour to calm a herd and that all cost money. It’s not a good way to run a stock yard. I believe what is good for cattle is also good for business.” Where temples work was published in may of newspapers then soon made headline making a new cattle bin