Comments | illuins_lair: (Short)Movie-rec: "TOUCH"

illuins_lair

(Short)Movie-rec: "TOUCH"

Jun 08, 2010 20:27

"Touch" is of the severe tissue-usage!variety. (For wiping tears and not porny fluids.)
This short film made me cry like crazy yesterday. Its slow dreamy narrative along with the golden scenery is so painful; treating with the dark subject of an abducted and abused boy and its effects when he is confronted with the world and society once again.
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floatingleaf June 10 2010, 03:14:09 UTC

Oh my God... that film is so terrifying. It punches you in the gut and doesn't let go. It's one of those topics you don't really want to know or think about, and yet... how do you forget something like this? It is totally incomprehensible - human beings' capacity for causing endless harm to other human beings. Not just physical harm, which is terrible enough in itself - but, worst of all, irreversible psychological damage. How can anyone live with themselves after inflicting something like this on another person? How can they sleep at night? That boy will never be able to love anyone, or let himself be loved. His very survival instinct has become so twisted that it's causing him further damage. I can't really picture any sort of worthwhile life for him. All I can see in his future is more self-harm, and perhaps suicide ( ... )

illuins_lair June 12 2010, 13:40:15 UTC

It punches you in the gut and doesn't let go
human beings' capacity for causing endless harm to other human beingsYes.. it really hurts watching it; a painful reminder of the dark evilness of people and the very reason reason to not flinch away from the topic ( ... )

floatingleaf June 13 2010, 02:05:56 UTC

the way pain and humiliation has substituted all his understanding of love and tender gestures. The way he "loves" his capturer, longing back to the dark room, feeling so estranged from the outer world, finding no comfort in it.

Yes. THIS is the worst of it all. I honestly think doing THIS to another (helpless and vulnerable) human being is worse than murder.

what does it mean to him to be "saved", because he certainly doesn´t find his way through the context of a normal world..

Exactly. It's almost like taking someone out of medieval times and transporting them into the 21st century so that they wouldn't die of the black plague or something. Would that person feel "saved", or would they think they were already in hell?... LOL

I doubt that the "evil ones" rarely come to grip with the true consequences of their crimesThey must be severely damaged themselves, lacking the capacity for compassion or remorse - how else could they do it?... What I really want to know, though, is how the damage actually starts - are some people simply ( ... )