Swim Team Page #5

Synopsis: SWIM TEAM chronicles the overwhelming struggles and extraordinary triumphs of 3 young athletes with autism and shows how a swim team can bring hope to a community.
Director(s): Lara Stolman
Production: Woodland Park Productions
  5 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
72
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2016
90 min
$4,024
Website
128 Views


-No.

You're not supposed to say that.

No. No.

Sometimes, say,

"I want to kill you,"

but it wouldn't be very nice.

I might get in trouble.

Yeah.

So what do you do

when you get angry, Kel?

-Just do right thing.

-What is the right thing to do?

Right thing you have to do

is some... do right choice.

You have to do something...

If I tell someone I feel angry,

we should use anger management.

Anger management! Yes.

Sometime, when you guys

were not home,

sometimes, I was home by myself.

Sometimes, I yell

around the whole house.

Sometimes, I feel frustrated.

-Yeah.

-Some day when you're not home.

Yeah?

That's why I got it

out of my system.

When I feel angry,

I just don't feel...

I don't like stuff.

I don't like...

Or maybe want to shout, yelling

around when I feel pissed off

when I'm yelling around

the whole house.

That's how they make me crazy.

If you remind him to wash

his hands, he gets mad.

If you remind him,

"It's time to go to bed,"

he gets mad.

If you remind him, say,"

the bus, school bus, is here."

And he just say,

"You don't tell me what to do!"

Like this, over here, okay.

You got to see right here.

There's a hole behind it.

And the holes behind this

and that and this.

He's got a really powerful arm

and a big strength,

and that's one of the holes

that he make.

And see this?

This, like,

very solid, solid wood,

and he just kicked the door

and these holes,

and like this, a punch.

This is a kick, and it's broken.

I don't really have a strategy.

Sometimes, we just try

to scare him, say,

"Kelvin, we're going to

call the policeman.

If we call 911, and police found

you hurt us, hurt anybody,

you're going to be in jail.

You cannot come back home."

And Kelvin likes...

He likes the policemen,

but he also understand,

you know, that jail life

is not that pleasant.

So he will say,

"Please, don't call police."

He say, "No. Don't call police."

Kelvin was

typical-developed baby.

I still remember Grandpa

hold his little, tiny hand

and walk up the stairs,

and he was counting.

He was learning counting

in Chinese with Grandpa.

After he turns 2,

the world changed.

He lost his vocabulary.

He didn't talk.

He needs to pull me

and scream and cry,

and I couldn't understand him,

what his needs.

And when he frustrated,

he'd bump his head on the wall.

I didn't know

what happened, and...

We went to different doctors.

We've tried different

kinds of medicines

and different combination

of the medicine,

different dosage

of the medicine.

The medication has no impact.

We seen his reduction of tics

and anger through swimming.

All right. Here we go!

Here we go! Let's go! Let's go!

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