Touches You

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The theme/plot/point of this movie simply doesn't work as some kind of obscure art-flick. Gus Van Sant uses the exact same framework as he did in 'Elephant': Long shots of boring everyday things that everyone does.The very big difference however, is that it worked very well in Elephant. The seemingly trivial shots of everyday happenings worked as a contrast to the disaster that would eventually come in the end. (And this isn't a spoiler because if you're gonna watch Elephant, you know it's about a school shooting.) Showing the young children interact with one another and their families for the entire movie made sense to give off just how unexpected and horrible the event must have felt.In this movie however, it's really just stupid and doesn't make for anything than a really boring film that you regret giving a chance. Absolutely nothing happens during the entire movie and then he dies. That's it. Im not exaggurating either, all we see is long shots of "Cobain" stumbling around looking druggy. He barely ever talks and when he does he just mumbles incoherently, there is no insight into his mind, he just looks doped up and then he suddenly dies. It's really just a terrible terrible disappointment and a failure of cinema."An introspective artist who is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation" is a very interesting topic for a movie. The right thing for Van Sant to do would have been to actually include dialogue with psychological insight into the mind of Kurt Cobain and really bring us into his head and what he is going through. It's not IMPOSSIBLE to do that because there are plenty of diaries, biographies and journal entry's that you can draw from to give some kind of a understanding into his problems with fame and himself.But no. Instead he chose to do something that is just wrong on every concievable level. Im not going to say that he chose to do something cheap, because I have more respect for him as an artist than that. I don't think he threw together a shitty movie just for the sake of it. But misguided? Poor judgment of how to treat the subject matter? Completely. 1/10.

Rock star resembling Kurt Cobain lurches around his secluded home in the woods, barely interacting with the other young people in the house and fooling around with a shotgun. Writer-director Gus Van Sant examines downtrodden lives (messed-up people who often live in crummy squalor) from such a distance that the bleak surroundings--such as the decaying mansion here--practically look sterile, untouched. This is nothing more than an exercise in camera style, with the technique itself becoming tiresome before the 30-minute mark. In the lead, Michael Pitt, morose and mumbling, has the perfect Cobain coif, yet he is given no actual character to play, any semblance of a screenplay being non-existent. This is the work of a filmmaker interested in bleak, dead-end scenarios--but one without the filmmaking passion to ferret out the questions behind all the hopelessness. NO STARS from ****

Beside being trite and a story line too often used, the chromatography was a complete bore. It tried way to be hard to be ultra artistic instead of trying hard to help tell the story. From the ultra slow pans around the actors to the too often used window reflections to the fade out blur...OMG it was so boring I could hardly stand to watch it.Now I will take the rest of the review to waste even more of your time trying to meet the ridiculous and arbitrary minimum 10 line review requirement of IMDb. Really, you guys should know better than anyone not ever movie deserves a 10 line review.if you decide to watch this movie, Please, please don't pay any money to do so...You will feel ripped off.

The movie needs a story and dwells on morose and dingy themes of growing insanity. If you wanted a movie to capture what it must have felt like to ***BE Kurt Kobaine then BINGO this is your movie. If you want to be entertained look elsewhere. This is a train wreck. No story ... No story ... No story ... No story ... NO STORY. You can make the same points but have a story.Some small sections of music make this tolerable. The scenery is awesome.Why did I waste my time? It is like looking at a car wreck you just can't help it