Review of The Intouchables (2011) by Paul W — 08 Dec 2013
A heartwarming movie about the warm relationship between a paralyzed man and his caregiver, in the spirit of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (and pretty much every other movie about paralyzed people and their relationships with caregivers, of which there have been several).
Whoever had the rental DVD before us turned the English subtitles off and we watched the first 20 minutes in French: I finally found the menu and turned the subtitles back on, but really, we could have watched the whole movie in French and gotten just about as much out of it.
It's a happy-making movie, and it does its job well. The Intouchables is more schmaltzy than most movies of its type, glossing over the unpleasant realities of life with an unresponsive body and showing only the good parts of the pair's relationship.
My heart melts like anyone else's, but what I take away from these movies is that it's good to have lots of money ... you never see paralytic movies with poor protagonists.
This review of The Intouchables (2011) was written by Paul W on 08 Dec 2013.
The Intouchables has generally received very positive reviews.
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