“The Boy With The Incredible Brain” (2005) – Review #31

Also known as “Brainman”.

Daniel Tammet is a young man with “high-functioning autistic savant syndrome”. In other words, he’s smart as hell. We follow him to the States where scientists get baffled at his extraordinary mental abilities. For example, he has a stop-over in Iceland where he learns the language in a week, he does calculations to 100 decimal places and remembers pi to 22,500 digits. How? The numbers just come to him.

He spends an afternoon with Kim Peek (the inspiration for Rain Man). It’s a wonderful scene where Kim says to Daniel: “Some day you will be as great as I am”. Perfect!

On the form side this doc is very much in the British documentary style. Enjoy:

IMDB: (awaiting 5 votes) / 47 minutes
Directed by: Steve Gooder

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