Incredibly moving documentary takes us into the interior life of an autistic person,and explores how films helped him communicate with the external worldAutism is a widely misunderstood condition; something Oscar-winning documentary film-maker Roger Ross Williams’s latest project attempts to tackle. Focusing on the life of Owen Suskind, who was diagnosed as autistic aged three, and it’s a beguiling mix of animated storytelling and narration that doesn’t flinch from exploring the emotional highs and lows that accompany a life with autism. One of Williams’s many accomplishments with Life,Animated is using the animated segments to communicate what the world is like for autistic people. Conversations become garbled, with words nearly impossible to pick out, or the everyday noises and situations which for most of us are the background ambience of life become a cacophony of imposing sound. Owen’s parents talk in heartbreakingly honest moments about how they feared they had lost their son for ever.
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Source: theguardian.com