Touching

Rating: Null/10 (29 September 2001)

This is a story of an unremarkable man, the ordinary guy, the kid you always made fun of in high school for taking special ed... this is the story of that man finding happiness that many of us only seek. That someone can be satisfied from the purity and simplicity of his life is truly amazing and should be a lesson to us all.
It's also a story of the differences between people, and how despite those differences we can still connect. He shares his life story with strangers while waiting for the bus, and he affects all of those characters in different ways, just like this movie affected different viewers in different ways. Some of them disregard him as just the dumb guy waiting for the bus, but some of them listen to him, most notably the older woman at the end who doesn't get on the bus because she truly wants to hear his story.
There are many other ways to perceive this story. You can see it as the story of a man who loves a woman struggling between goodness and immorality, or as an essay on how people change over time, or even how ignorance can breed contentment.
But no matter what you see in this movie, you find that it's a multi-faceted study on life, and you see glimpses of yourself in the characters. It reaches humans on every level - it makes us laugh, cry, contemplate... and our hearts soar whenever something good happens.
Hopefully you too will watch this movie and get one step closer to figuring out exactly who you are.