3rd Annual Now Film Festival - Week 4 Finalist - Twitch

A young girl is torn between two worlds: The emerging world of sexuality with her eager, hormone-addled boyfriend which is created to escape her domestic life caring for her wheelchair-bound mother.

Twitch was the Grand Jury Prize Winner at Slamdance

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Academy
• Award
• Slamdance
• Sundance
• Cannes
• Drama
• Swim
• Teenage
• Sex
• Disability

[FanfareForFreaks]

I love it

My View:

to me the wrap on her legs was the way for her to feel this final step of what was taking tole on her body the removal was her realizing the now the fact that for this time being she will have to just keep moving on.

the mother- rep. her future

The boyfriend- is the mask used to cover up all the self loathing

the doctor- denial

[nowfilmfestival]

love the reviews fanfare... keep it up!

[grakanpont]

when you´re deeply afraid, you can not feel anything.May be the ending means she decided to live without fear so she can feel all emotions.

[nowfilmfestival]

whoah..haven't thought of it that way, grakanpont

[LeMaJzMINT]

alot of it's symbolic, maybe the ending is the girl trying to see what if feels like to be in her mothers crippled state - a reflection of the beginning

[nowfilmfestival]

i'm not the director...(just the festival director) ... but i think that the girl is deeply afraid that she'll get her mother's disease one day and is worried about how her life will change when that happens (will her boyfriend really care about her? will she be able to enjoy the things she loved to do - such as swimming)... the same way we put plastic wrap over food so it won't go bad.. she put the wrap around her legs because she doesn't want it to go bad....

just my theory

[boopbop99]

I loved how she had to clean herself after every contact with her mother. She's afraid of that being her future, so she tries to wash it off.

[twloha73]

it is the daughter, you can tell because she has a ponytail, and there are scenes where you see the back of the moms head and she has short hair.

[iTzViVi]

naw dude. watch it again.

its the mom on her knees

and off her rocker wrapping

up all the food (SO IT WON'T ROT)

that her daughter complained

about.

[thelossofblood]

Actually the daughter is the one that wraps all the food, not the mom.

[TheGraySwan]

We all are afraid of following in our parents footsteps. Wether they did good or bad we all want to make our own way. Our paths may be an extension of their own we want to define it but somehow everytime we end up doing through the same shit. It's a human thing. The cling wrap is symbolism. Without your legs even in water you are helpless even if you know how to do the dolphin kick, it was her decision to control her path, liberation from her mother's path.

[iTzViVi]

I think that this girl is depicted as your "typical teenage girl"

and her boyfriend was much like a typical teenage boy too.

GREAT ACTORS =D!

The part where he doesn't respond to her seriously when she tells him he's sick is like a boy who only cares about her much more as a sex-thing. that they are intimate in a physical way more than an emotional way.

Health is a theme; it plays around with health - in emotional and physical.

[iTzViVi]

Notice how she puts on her mom's shoes in the beginning, as if she does it only because she has to, without any showing of course, and look at how she treats her mom.

The part where her mom goes through all the trouble to wrap EVERY piece of food in the refridgerator to please her daughter. And you can imagine only how much her mom can really do - she's confined to that wheelchair.

[iTzViVi]

It's almost as if the "twitch" - as i thought first - was a 'Good' Twitch! Like a typical teenager falling for a boy, and she didn't seem too worried when she was at the doctor's. THEN, the story changed when you started to see the image of her suffocated and being strangled when her boyfriend is touching her.

It's at this point that she's so scared, she thinks of her mom and all that her mom must go through.

[iTzViVi]

She comes home and puts her mom up in the chair, and this time, she is noticeably a little more gentle with her mom and minds her a little more. (before, when she entered the house, she gave extremely little care to her mom)

She wraps her legs in the plastic to see what it feels like to REALLY be her mom - to not be able to move or feel or use her legs.

[iTzViVi]

The pool contrasts with feelings that she had (in the beginning) as a little girl. The scene in the beginning is a contrast. It compares how happy and excited she was as a child, loved her mom and liked to share things with her (like children do) and how she didn't understand her mom's condition. But the end is the opposite. The scene is even taken at night. And if you notice, the way the camera records it, it's similar to the same way they recorded the free way she swam in the beginning.

[cody3290]

keen insight.