The Intouchables

I’ve been critized many time for my harsh ratings of movies, I’ve also been asked to open more of the what are my thoughts behind them and now I am finally want to open more about my thoughts.

So for starting this series, let me begin with my personal all time favourite movie — The Intouchables. Hold your horses, I am not trying to be movie critic or try to justify my thoughts based on cultural relevance, cinematography or somehting sophistacted. My personal view on films are personal, I like movies that makes me feel something and that is how every film in my opinion should be rated. Don’t get me wrong, of course I love a good story, beautiful frames, electrical actor performances, but they are not the most important part for me, it all comes to mix of all that, mixed with my persona and my life, if there are some things that feels like something somewhere deep in my soul, those are the movies that I love. So understanding this point of view, hopefully helps you to understand my approach but I think by saying that, I need to open more of my life and myself so you can understand why this movie is so dear to my heart. This may also be somethings that you don’t give a shit about and it is also completly fine, God bless you. If you are intersted, awesome, continue reading.

So let’s get in to the movie. The Intouchables is a movie that touched me deeply and changed me as person and a boy dreaming of becoming a feature film director. The chracaters, the themes and the story resonated with me. No I am not crippled nor am I a black French refugee, but I am and have alway been a stranger in each country that I’ve lived or visited, the curse of being a mixed breed. Throughout my life the themes of poverty and extreme richess been also present. I lived in Indonesia growing up, as a family we haven’t own much but thankfully we’ve always survived. To get a maybe a better undertanding of it, I’ve never received a gift from my parents for birthday nor Christmas. I never felt poor, but growing up in a enviroment where I was surrounded by extreme wealth of a movie like Crazy Rich Asians, yes I could see the wide gap. Luckily for me, these people in my life that had been blessed with dead presidents, has been nice, they cared for me. I can’t count how many times have they paid for my meals, trip fees or even a multi country trip in Europe. That clash of two different economical background presented in movie was so relatable for me, and the friendship that was formed between Philippe and Idris. And what a well written characters with superb acting. I don’t think that a deep love and friendship between two males are represented in films enough. That is one theme that I am also working on right now with a TV series that I am developing, because I’ve been fortunate enough to have this brotherly figures in my life and I wouldn’t be here without them.