What separates us

Temple Grandin

(2010)

Truly amazing film, centered on a truly amazing performance by Claire Danes, about the autistic pioneer in humane treatment of livestock (who got her Ph.D. in animal science at Illinois, though the film leaves her at the M.S. level). Yeah, a lot of people wish she'd come out against eating animals rather than in favor of making their time in the feedlots and slaughterhouses less stressful, but she is who she is, and the film gives at least a pretty convincing simulation of putting you in her image-flooded head. And astonishingly, given that lack of empathy is the autistic person's Achilles' heel, being put in that head is one of the most moving experiences a movie will ever give you. A beautiful film.