Weekly Post #5

Life animated (movie review)

This movie is more of a documentary, directed and co-produced by Roger Ross Williams; and, also, co-produced by Julie Goldman. This movie is based on a best seller named the same (by Ron Suskind), and it talks mainly about movie heroes, sidekicks and mostly about autism, and it turns around Owen Suskind (Ron´s son).

This movie represents the life of Owen, who first was a normal kid but ended up having a branch of autism, developed at 3 years old. The movie has a really interesting storyline, since it starts with a nice introduction to the Suskind family on their early years and then it jumps on from the present and then goes on to the past explaining events from Owen’s life with the events that happened from the past using Disney movies as reference for everything and making sense of the world through them, the movie also gives the perspectives from all the family to every part. I personally liked how they managed the storyline, also the movie has an emotional and personal approach to the autism using the perspective of someone who has it, also they use the post-production to make it feel like an actual movie instead of just a documentary about autism, this thanks to the all the great post-production put into every scene.

I really enjoyed this movie, because of the message this left, but definitely my favorite part is when Owen’s brother, Walter, appears for a while (present time) and takes him to a little game of mini-golf and then they just start talking about what’s been going on in Owen’s life, especially about Owen’s girlfriend, Emily, and Walter just talks and pays with his brother for a while and tries to help him a little bit with his relationship, also tries to get him into the French kiss, then he starts talking about his concern about Owen’s knowledge about sex and how he doesn’t know how to let him know since the base for everything on Owen’s life is Disney and he even have tough about showing him some Disney porn, which is honestly hilarious. But overall a nice and pretty bother-brother moment.

 Also, as you may have noticed, my favorite character is Walter, and best known as Walt (yeah just like Walt Disney), whom is Owen’s older brother and is 3 years older so he is always trying to protect his little brother and looking forward to do the best he can in every situation, as well as keep going normally with his life despite everything, his parents getting older and all that, I just guess I see myself in him since I’m an older brother as well, I don’t know, I’m just guessing.

And well overall I would give this movie/documentary a 9.5/10 it’s pretty good but It could be a bit overwhelming, so I would recommend to watch it at least a second time so you could get everything and it’s pretty enjoyable as well.

I have to say I liked this movie and how it really gives a new perspective about autism to the viewers and how it gets very real despite the obvious edition behind. I haven’t read the book honestly, but I sure will. This was a pretty enjoyable movie overall, and I would recommend watching at least once in life.