A young man on the autism spectrum is having difficulty dealing with anything except the things that interest him. Things become complicated when he falls for a girl who may have more in common with him than he thinks.
I know that the director Lucca Vieira is only 20 years old but he has a sure hand for direction. I know he has been making movies since he was 8, but the jump to a feature with big name stars is not something you normally see. To be honest I have only seen one other person who had mastered directing so early, Madison Campione, who was still in high school when she was shaking the pillars of cinematic heaven. This is not to put the two in competition, rather it is simply to reveal how good Vieira is. (I need to see what comes next)
As good as the filmmaking is over all I have to take a couple of points away for the script. Don’t get me wrong, Vieira manages to get his battle with autism on screen, and he has written some wonderful scenes (I love Wes Studi telling him not to get too crazy since a lot of high school soon won’t matter) but the pacing isn’t quite what it should be thanks to several sequences having a static quality. The drama isn’t as perfectly crafted as it could be. Its nothing fatal, but its noticeable because everything else is so sterling that you see the bumps.
My quibble aside, MIDWAY POINT is worth seeing.
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