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New Apple TV+ Animated Film ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, And The Horse’ Reminds Mental Health Can Be A Disability Like Any Other
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Dec 22, 2022,02:46pm EST|
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Charlie Mackesy’s book comes to life on Apple TV+ on Christmas.
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When it comes to depicting disability on screen, Apple TV+ has plenty of overtness. See has blindness. Little Voice has autism. Best Foot Forward has limb differences. All of these shows are obvious, if not entirely relatable to audiences, homages to the disability community. As I’ve written numerous times in this space, it’s these kinds of earnest, genuine representation of disability that are befitting of Apple’s institutional belief that accessibility is a fundamental human right. Nowhere is this commitment more evident than in the company’s newest short film, called The Greatest, released early this month coincident with [...]
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