Movie #1324 ........................."Life, Animated"

Movie #1324 "Life, Animated" is an academy award nominated documentary on the life of an autistic kid who learns how to read and deal with the world through Disney animated films.  What a fun watch!  It follows hims using family films when he was little all the way up to a big speech he gives at a convention on autism.  And what a journey he has made!  I viewed  it while I was prepping for my Oscar gathering, and I had to sit down because it was so watchable!  He's such an endearing person that I immediately googled him after the film to get an update on his life  (and I probably will continue to do that because I feel the film enabled me to get close to him and care about him!) It is a wonder how the films have taught him so much,  and they enabled the person he really is, down deep inside, to come out and blossom. So say what you want about Disney and animation and film, but something is working here, and I hope it opens more doors to better communication with autistics.   The only negative was a scene in the film that was so effective and so meaningful and so wow!  occurred in the middle of the film, and I felt it should have been at the end.  But , otherwise, loved this a lot and give it 4 stars out of 5.

"LIFE, ANIMATED"     2016        1 hour 31 mins

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When once-chatty Owen Suskind stops speaking at age 3, the only stimuli he responds to are Disney films. Four years later, his dad breaks Owen's silence by talking to him as a character from one of those movies -- which suddenly opens up his world.