Touch

An 8 year old child is abducted and imprisoned for 8 years by a abusive child molester. Since the only human contact he has is in the form of sexual abuse by his captor, he learns to mistake the abuse he receives for affection.

When he escapes he has trouble returning to a normal life and cannot "unlearn" some of the twisted lessons that this life has taught him.

As moving as this story would be from any viewpoint, its first person narrative style makes it truly moving.

I saw this at a film festival with over 40 other films and of everything I saw this was the best film of the lot. It was NOT an enjoyable film but the story it tells and the perspectives it imparts are worth the ordeal of viewing it.

A lot of people are saying this movie is disturbing. No. It would of been if we had character development, a story, better picture quality and better acting.

If you are going to do a movie about CSA, i think you should make the movie longer, and get to know our victim, give me development. There's none here. Also the audio in this is terrible. Half of what the narrator said was hard to follow.

Honestly, there really isn't a lot here. What is here could of been much better. Instead of making this a short, i'd would love it for someone to make it longer, and actually put a story here, and have actors voice this. Lack of story and lack of voice acting.

Personally i think movies like Mysterious Skin, 3096 Days, Lilya 4 Ever, Your Name Is Justine, Apartment 407 do a much better job then this thing ever would. Why? Because every movie i just listed, have better acting, better writing, better picture quality, better everything.

This movie isn't terrible, but it could of been much better.

Be careful, this movie is both haunting and thought provoking. It will show you another side of humanity. One could even say that it introduces you to another type of erotic. A lot of life is all about perceptions and relativity. Without being judgemental, you can see almost the opposite of what you may consider reality.

Am I the only curious viewer at the mindset of the director? This first person story sounds like poetry from a broken desperate person, fractured from how you and I exist. A background without traumatic experiences could not have written this, surely.

The depravity we speak of in extreme cinema doesn't do justice like it does here. This movie is truly deprivation without any of the extreme exploitation or Hollywood gimmicks.

You cannot enjoy this movie.

You cannot hate this movie.

The movie just is.

And this movie is so calm, yet so stressful.

"Touch" is an extremely intense film. The director - or someone central to the making of this film - understand what it's like to be abused over a long period of time and how the effects of that experience persist even after the abuse has ended. It's all voice-over by a boy who goes to sleep in his own bed at the age of eight and wakes up in a bare, dark room. He lives in that room and others like it for eight years, visited from time to time by a man who beats him. (I think it's also implied that the man sexually abuses him.) When he's finally free, the film follows him, showing how (probably permanently) mangled he was by the experience. Very hard to watch. Extraordinarily well done.