Touches You

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To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

To those who think ALL the scenes are real, I hate to burst your bubble. The West Virginia miner scene was filmed in Alabama at De Soto Caverns. How do I know? My husband "died" in that scene. They even used his real name Ralph. If you pay close attention, you'll notice he was later one of the guys who carried out his own "dead" body.He was a young graduate of the University of Alabama at the time and was paid in pizza and beer.I rated the movie a 10 only because Ralph was so cute and young at the time. Otherwise, the movie is very low brow and ridiculous.I assure you, Ralph is very much alive and still pretty damn cute.

Basically this film's a mix-bag of old news footage and poor fakes. It's a very low-budget film and it shows -- clearly the producers of this film had very little money for actors, so you actually recognize the faces of the "participants" in a lot of the scenes which are said to occur in very different places and times. You'll see someone die tragically one moment, then miraculously come to life again for the next tragedy... this is a very silly film, but then that's pretty obvious from the over-the-top introduction by "Dr. Louis Flellis".Even if you don't have a good eye for faces, the faked nature of many of the "shocking footage recently recovered" is so obvious it's a wonder anyone can not spot it. The "bungee" scene, supposedly taken with one camera on the roof, has a cinematic cut to another scene at ground level. In the tiger scene, the wounded man mysteriously changes clothes between the time of the attack and the arrival of the paramedics (he starts off in camouflage, but ends up wearing blue coveralls, and his hair changes color too). I understand the whole "voluntary suspension of disbelief" idea, but this film is quite poor even by exploitation flick standards.

You said it has to be real, otherwise why is it banned everywhere including the U.S.Ummm.... I've lived in three different states in the U.S. and it was widely available to rent on video in all three. Now maybe I just "coincidentally" happened to live in the three states where they allow it, but I doubt it.You see, they put that it's been "banned" in so many places to make it sound cooler so people will rent it. It's a lie you buffoon.Yes, most of the scenes are fake. But it was still pretty fun to watch back in the day.

I'd say about 90% of this movie is fake. It's not shocking or anything. The doctor was pretty fun. I love it when he pulls out the gun and says that he defends his rights, and the other goofy things he says. The real footage is just brief clips of news footage of people getting beat and stuff, nothing really gory. It's insane it's considered so shocking...I'd say it's only PG-13.