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Salon
Lifestyle
Kristen Lopez

“A Different Man” upends ableism tropes

The following contains spoilers for "A Different Man"

Director Aaron Schimberg understands his latest movie, “A Different Man,” will make audiences uncomfortable.

“People are made uncomfortable by disfigurement and, therefore, they're made uncomfortable by films about disfigurement,” he said to Salon. But the film, which hit theaters this Friday, is an attempt to upend many of the narrative tropes that have defined stories about disfigured and disabled people since time immemorial.

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