VENICE—The opening scene of a new biopic on climate wonder child Greta Thunberg will pique the interest of conspiracy theorists who have long floated the idea that the Swedish student is a puppet for a larger force. In the opening scene of her new biopic I am Greta, a professional camera crew (read:
not an iPhone or shaky home video), follows the young Swede as she conducts her first sit-in in front of the Swedish Parliament Hall with her hand-written sign that said, “School Strike for Climate.” It was before her movement went global, and it begs the question why a professional film crew would have possibly been interested in the antics of one young girl acting alone.
But she let him shoot 100 hours of film, tagging along on her European tour last year and on the sailboat that took her to the U.N. Climate Action Summit last fall. And what he revealed was not a naive child who is being manipulated by anyone, but a passionate girl doing well managing Asperger Syndrome, whose struggles with depression and food are not so different from a lot of other teens doing far less than she is.
Story continuesSeveral times, he comes down hard on her, disallowing her to join throngs of protesters unless she eats something, at least a banana, which she sits and pouts and chomps down so she can go back out. Many people on the autism spectrum as she is have complicated relationships with food. Hers is made more so by a stubbornness that is both charming and difficult for her father to manage.
Between her protest appearances and world stage speaking gigs, she dances, giggles, and bonds with her dogs and horse, acting as if she’s never been on the cover of Time magazine or named one of Forbes’ Most Powerful Women. But she also reads all the criticism about her, sitting on a picnic table scanning Twitter on her iPhone for the worst that is said.
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