Other Stories about mental Disability? The Feature Films The Eighth Day (1996), Me Too (2009) and Leon and Olvido (2004)

The present article aims to show how traditional stereotypes about cognitive impairment are still present in actual films, although with a tendency towards more complex forms of representation. Three recent films about protagonists with Down's syndrome show different ways to play with the stereotypes of victim and hero and offer a new kind of experience with this type of impairment to the spectator. While Le huitieme jour and Yo, tambien destroy unilateral ideas of victims or heroes, Leon y Olvido includes ambivalence as well as a resource to undermine deadlocked images about disability and normality.