Touches You

Great Film overall

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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

This is a very important and underrated movie. I loved how they handled the topic and the damage it does it to children.Very well written, directed and acted. From beginning to end 10/10 movie for me. At once the most harrowing and, strangely, the most touching film I have seen about child abuse. It is very hard to shake.

I decided to watch this movie because I thought it had a compelling story and was told in a unique way. This is not true. The movie is not about a boy marked by his childhood and another in the pursuit of a dark secrete. It's a movie about disturbing homosexual experiences with too much explicit pedophile scenes. There are movies that have raw homosexual scenes but this involve children and is just sick. It's like the director puts this horrible spectacle not because is needed to tell the story but rather because it's the story. The plot is predictable and you end up just with an uncomfortable experience. 2 stars and not one because it has very good acting. Don't watch this movie.

Here we have two boys, both narrating their memory of that childhood night that changed the universe.The film is about child molestation but it's not a 'message movie' up front, the hurt wrapped in something more weird about the hole it leaves in the soul.One boy goes on a teenage life of cheap sex that makes him feel desired, the other tries to piece detective-like the puzzle of what he's sure happened to him: alien abduction one night.It is more deeply about a hole in the memory of who you are, about missing time, wonderful stuff. The catch? We implicitly value ambiguity in films but it's not always clear why. My definition of ambiguity is of a simultaneous view, of things being both so and in some other way, this and not this. This means temporarily suspending judgement, to resist saying things are only one thing. Here we have it clearly, two stories that we're called to figure. So to get the full effect, the catch is that you have to be able to quickly juggle a whole cloud of mirrored story, to ambiguously hold how the two stories are about the same boy, that it's neither just this nor unlike it.In short, simultaneously hold how one narration may have splintered off in the other and both mirror the same pathway to mind, and whole sequences will open up as you watch, like the Halloween night that goes through masks and bullying in a 'scary house' and ends with a blurry passing-out.Suspending judgement extends in another way. We see stuff we could easily be judgmental of, a boy who prostitutes himself, a mother who's reckless of his pain, but see past just this without denying it and you'll see a soul in the same need of affection as the rest of us.You have to quickly get in that space because the filmmaker makes it gradually more clear until a protracted (literal) explanation in the end of one boy to the other of what actually happened that night that clears the air of confusion and restores painful clarity.So here's a film that takes after Lynch of his mid-period (that is until Mulholland), the sunny picture of middle-America that hides something, for a while attempts the same ambiguous blur of submerging cause to bring to the front images of its having been lived; the dreamlike opening shot of colorful cheerios raining on the smiling boy and we soon find out what that was a part of.In the end it falls back to the logic of explanations, clearly separating real and not. No mistake, it's the most difficult narrative challenge to pose on oneself, one that Lynch has been perfecting his whole career, so all told I'd rather celebrate here the imaginative attempt.I saw this with a previous film by the same guy, that one a critique as superficial as the TV walls it projected on. Here I'm happy to see him grow.

Misleading descriptions leave out that this is essentially softcore homosexual pornography; first 24 minutes that I saw were nothing but graphic pedophilia and homosexual prostitution, nothing about a hustler, nothing about aliens other than they look like child rapists.Movie's description should be updated to include: A flaming homosexual does a bunch of gay stuff and some guy shows up every few minutes with a nose bleed.Extremely bad movie, extremely poor taste in terribly written description.Whoever wrote the script to this movie is obviously a pervert and should be euthanized immediately.