Float is a six-minute Pixar film on Disney Plus.  Six of the best minutes of my life.

The boy has wide eyes that embrace life.  He loves blowing the fluff off dandelions that have gone to seed.  The trouble is that he follows the flow of the bits … through the air.

The first screenshot is an older version of the fascinated kid.

Years prior, dad is initially enthralled with his child’s superpower … but then there are the neighbours:

Dad rushes the boy back inside, buys a backpack and loads it with rocks. The person who has power shuts down the one who doesn’t.

Dad is ever watchful of society stepping on him. The heavy backpack goes on walks. One day father and son pause at a playground full of kids. Dad turns the wrong way just for a few seconds … and there’s a backpack lying on the sidewalk.

The young one hovers over the slide, mimics kids on the swings by tracing a curve in the air, soars high above the net to grab the basketball. He leaves a trail of disbelieving faces:

Dad hauls his son away by the shirt, with the kid trailing horizontally in the air.

Then father turns and screams …

Why can’t you just be normal!?

The boy stares. He cries. He sinks through the air to the ground.

And time stands still for me.

It was a moment of truth.

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Dad feels the faces turned towards him

He sees the wet trails descending from his son’s eyes

Dad’s eyes soften

And then …