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Film Analysis: Rain Man

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The movie Rain Man begins with a character named Charlie Babbit. Charlie is a car salesman, who is greedy and money hungry. Charlie is on vacation when he learns his father, who he isn’t close to, has died. While at the funeral, Charlie finds out that his father left him a 1949 Buick convertible in his will. Charlie also learns an unknown beneficiary was left 3million dollars. Charlie does some investigative work and learns the money in being sent to a mental institution. He visits the facility and learns he has a brother living at the facility, named Raymond. Charlie becomes aware that his brother is an autistic savant. Raymond suffers from learning disabilities and has problems in communicating but possess other extraordinary abilities. Raymond …show more content…

In an attempt to gain access to the 3 million dollars, Charlie kidnaps Raymond, and asks a doctor for ransom, for Raymond’s safe return. Charlie asked for half of the 3 million dollars that was left to Raymond. Charlie takes Raymond to Los Angeles to start a legal battle with the mental institution. Charlie booked the brother’s flight, but wasn’t aware Raymond was afraid to fly because of his knowledge and recall of the probability of the plane crashing. The two brothers are forced to take a road trip to Los Angeles. Somewhere along the way during the trip, Charlie begins to understand Raymond’s autism, and his keen mental abilities. Raymond wins the two a large amount of money in a Las Vegas casino, because he can count cards. Raymond begins for develop a bond with his long-lost brother and has a change of heart. By the end of the movie Charlie no longer wants his part of the 3 million dollars, instead he just wants custody of Raymond. There are extensive mental evaluations done to Raymond, and the doctors conclude he can’t live outside the walls of the mental institution. Charlie has to return his brother to the mental institution and promises to …show more content…

Savant Syndrome comes with serious mental disabilities which include autistic disorder, but some type of genius qualities are expressed, which is in direct conflict with the nature of the syndrome. People that suffer from the syndrome have varying degrees of developmental disabilities, but the common link is always in the ability to remember massive amounts of information. Kim Peek, the original inspiration for the movie Rain Man, died in 2009. Peek had an incredible number of things memorized. He memorized over six thousand books, all the United States area codes, and major city zip codes. Peek possessed the ability to read at a rapid pace and even simultaneously read one page with his left eye, and the other page with his right eye. This type of reading continued until his death. Due to his condition, Peek was a living breathing encyclopedia and GPS all rolled into

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