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From fragments of the daily life of an autistic boy and his father (the director of the short film), a declaration of filial love is constructed and the fears they must face in a world that still rejects diversity are raised.
From fragments of the daily life of an autistic boy and his father (the director of the short film), a declaration of filial love is constructed and the fears they must face in a world that still rejects diversity are raised.
At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.
