Sunday, December 30, 2012

Touch / <터치> 2012

Directed by: Min Byeong-hoon / 민병훈
Release date: November 2012

An uncannily sensitive woman tries to make better all the troubling situations around her – people neglected by the health system, child abusers, troubled teens – and, for the most part, her gestures all go wrong. Yet she seems incapable of doing anything but keep on trying. The heartbreaks and frustrations just go on and on.

An oddly dark film, with large gaps in the plot left unexplained. Deer make frequent appearances in the film, symbolizing something but it’s not clear what. The filmmaker had some sort of vision about being "애매하다" (vague, obscure) but it did not work well and we spent much of the film trying to guess just what was supposed to be going on. Superb and sensitive acting. An overdone soundtrack that was much too intrusive. 
My take: 1 star
Her husband balks at shooting an oddly complacent deer 
and radically changes his luck.



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