Life, Animated | movie | 2016 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with app | dG1fQy1rRmpPMDA3R00

Transcript

00:00 There is a boy who is just like other boys,

00:04 until one night he sees from his window a storm on the horizon.

00:09 Owen, who are you?

00:13 I'm Pizza Man, and you can't be.

00:16 All of a sudden, at three years old, Owen vanishes.

00:21 The doctor says, "Let me explain what autism is."

00:28 Some of the kids don't ever talk again.

00:31 I remember thinking, "I'm just going to hold you so tight,

00:36 and love you so much that whatever is going on will go away."

00:41 We're beginning to give up hope, and one day we're watching the Disney animated movies,

00:47 and he says he doesn't want to grow up like Mowgli or Peter Pan.

00:52 What the hell just happened?

00:57 And all of a sudden it became clear to us, he's using these movies

01:01 to make sense of the world he actually is living in, our world.

01:05 So at that point, we began to speak to him in Disney dialogue.

01:08 When did you and I become such good friends?

01:14 Whatever works to get to Owen.

01:17 I've been scared my whole life of growing up.

01:20 Peter Pan doesn't want to grow up, because when you grow up,

01:23 you lose all your magical childhood times.

01:26 My hope is that he is independent enough to be able to grow older on his own.

01:32 When I look in the mirror, I see a proud autistic man,

01:37 ready to meet a future that is bright and full of wonder.

01:41 He's going to have to fall and fail.

01:47 We're not afraid of that as we used to be.

01:50 Catch Gus!

01:54 I just can't believe how far Owen has come.

01:57 The future, I'm still searching for it.

02:03 Who decides what a meaningful life is?

02:06 It's like I always say,

02:10 children got to be free to lead their own lives.

02:14 [Music]

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