 Is it recording? I have this. If I have to have any worry or fear, it's that I'm just talking to no one and it's not the capture. Oh my god, I would die. Welcome back to Spoonsville. Hello. Today, on the program, we will be covering Intouchables. Intouchable. Intouchable. Intouchable. In French? Yeah. Yeah, it's the original French version movie, not the American remake of it. It came out in 2010, 2011, something like that. Brief synopsis, 20 seconds. We give ourselves to give an overview of the thing in case you missed it or haven't seen it for a while. I want to touch it. Touch up. Okay. Follow the story of a guy who... Shoot, meets... Quadriplegic. Quadriplegic, who is needing another helper, and hires a guy who at first just needs to get his benefits. It comes in, so he checks off the paper, but then they end up becoming friends and then they form a friendship, a lasting friendship throughout their whole lives. And... Yeah. Good job. Oh, first like five seconds. I couldn't mind my own brain fart, but it came together. You helped me there. I kind of cheated a little bit. Thank you. Thank you. But it was so sweet. You know, it was so sweet and so heartwarming. Jinx, you owe me a Coke. I don't really like Coke. It was just really heartwarming. I found kind of skipping to the end, but I found at one point, when he finally has to say goodbye, or at one point he gets him just to help him with one more thing. Yeah. And it makes you so happy that they're realizing how much they need each other. But it was just... It was so... Can I think another word for sweet? What's another word for sweet? It was juicy. Enduring. Yeah. So for me, yes, it was absolutely heartwarming, but I felt there was a lot... I cried afterwards a lot, not tears of joy, just tears of... Tears of tears. Tears of tears. No, I was sad. Even right now as I'm thinking about it, when you talked about the last scene, I can tell my voice is already shaking. I hope I can pull it together. It was just so sad. Yeah. It was a culmination of two people that really realized how much they... Not even needed each other, but also just got so much out of each other's company. True friendship, true free from... Obviously they have to eventually slowly get to know each other, but by the end they... I don't know. It's like they were meant for each other. Yeah. Those kind of friendships. Yeah. You never want them to be apart. Are you clipping my nails just now? No, I just like playing with your nails. Why they become friends is because Driss, the helper, he just treats them like a friend. Yeah. He makes jokes at his expense. But he doesn't worry about like, oh wait, I shouldn't have said that because that could take offense because you can't move your body. Yeah. Which all the caregivers that are interviewed before this guy decides to hire Driss... They're all very nervous. They're all very nervous. Making sure they... Yeah. They try to make sure that they're sweet and kind and gentle, make sure that they don't offend. Yeah. So that's the thing where I felt like this movie just puts you in the mind of people that are disadvantaged in societies in a certain way, that they just want to be treated normally. Yeah. Like I do not want for you to treat me differently from other people just because you think that I need you to be sensitive. Yeah. Right? Because for example, banter. That's fun, right? Yeah. People who are not... Who don't have physical disabilities, they make fun of each other. You know? Like does your stroke joke around? Yeah. You know, you're like, okay, well, you don't have any issues. People are much more open to joking and, you know, banter because you're like, well, you're confident enough in yourself because you don't have any issues. Yeah. So I can make... I can make fun of whatever. But then with other people, the people who do maybe have certain very visible disabilities, then you feel like you don't want to do that. But you don't actually realize you're ostracizing these people because, you know, I don't want people walking on eggshells around me. You know, I don't want people treating me a certain way because they assume that I have certain struggles and so they cannot have a certain conversation with me. Like I've, you know, one, I am female and of course, skin tone. So I have had that experience of people having... Sensoring themselves and having certain conversations with me in a certain way because they feel that they don't want to offend me or they assume that whatever issues that are happening in the world that pertain to my, you know, like how I look, I wouldn't want brought up or I wouldn't want negatively affected by it. And so then they don't... So then they're... The conversation isn't open. It isn't, you know, it isn't fun. It's very restricted. And even I feel uncomfortable. And that is not something that I like. I don't like people walking on eggshells around me. I think that it's nice for human beings to engage with each other openly. And if there is an issue, address it. It's okay to offend but acknowledge it and then say, how would you like for me to treat you in future, for example? So our go-to is to be sensitive and which can be very detrimental. And so the quadriplegic Rich Guy Philippe, he then hires this ex-prisoner because of the fact that this guy just treats me like everyone, this thing that I long for. Just be treated like everybody to not be like, to not have people walking on eggshells, to have people laugh, you know, just make fun of me about the fact that I can't feel anything. Yeah. And I think that is why he hires him. He doesn't even know him. He doesn't care that he's a prisoner. He just cares that even though other people are worried, this is an ex-prisoner. You know, what are you doing bringing this person into your house? And he's like, I couldn't care less. I just like the fact that he makes me feel like a human being. Yeah, yeah. So it's also such a funny movie. It's such a perfect blend of tragedy and the sad parts of life with so much great humor. It's really, it's one of those movies, you think about it, it's a very sad movie, but it's so funny and so heartwarming that it's so easy to get through and so entertaining. I love that. And that's a hard balance to make. Yeah. There are, there, remember that scene where he's shaving him? I do. And he, he's doing all these goofy looks as he shakes his beard. And then the last look is Hitler. And he starts making fun of, you know, him being kind of like Hitler or whatever and talks about- Like speaking German. Put his hair down. He's just speaking German with his hair down. And we were just talking, remember we talked about how, you know, how like life is so complicated, right? And it's good. It's bad. There's ugly. There's awkward. There's pain. You know, there's happiness. And there's sometimes making fun of things that made other people suffer. suffer, which, you know, I think people, when they do do that, it's not necessarily that they are feeling like, I love that, you know, that this happened or you know what I mean? It's like, you know, it's almost still to kind of cope with making sense that that was something that happened. Yeah. Yeah, like, because sometimes, you know, there, you cope with humor, right? When something sad happens, for example, or you, I don't know, you interact with something that was tough in a way that's more in a humorous way to let it out, you know, like, you're almost kind of laughing like, geez, right? Maybe if you came from a family of, you know, like, neglectful parents, like, Jesus, I was raised by wolves, you know what I mean? You'll say stuff like that. But anyway, I think the point is with that movie, when they were talking about when he was making fun of the guy looking like Hitler, when you watch that, if you were, if that was happening in public, you would think how insensitive, you know, so many people suffered, you know, and so it's interesting because I think everybody can relate to in the privacy of their own home. People have done things like Yeah, making fun of something or someone, even understanding that I would never do this in public because the public doesn't know me. Like, I can do it with my husband because my husband knows that I'm a good person and they, my husband knows that I don't want any ill, wish any ill will towards this person. And, you know, I don't want, you know, like, I don't feel any negative way about that person. It's just how as human beings sometimes, you know, like to deal with tough things, sometimes it's just much easier to deal with them through humor because humor allows you to talk about it and let it out of your heart without the sometimes feeling a little bit nervous or shy to cry because sometimes it's hard for us to cry and express our emotions that way but then we still want to get things off our chest so then maybe we just laugh about it like, oh my gosh, you know, this person really screwed me over. You know, like, am I like, yeah, I don't know, am I the dumbest person alive? You know, for example, right? These are just things you'll say in a humorous way but these are actually very deep things. Take away the goofy, the goofing around and the laughing and just have and just strip that, you know, the words of everything surrounding it. You realize how deep a conversation they're having and yeah. Yeah, I think also they're doing it was happening while they were shaving, which is I think something where the mundane things in life that you end up doing, you know, like shaving how many hundreds of times throughout your life or or showering how many times throughout your life, you know, it can kind of get just too routine and too habitual and, you know, if you want to try and enjoy life, sometimes you have to take a chance of, well, while I'm showering, maybe I'm gonna sing really loud and just go nuts and pretend like I'm an opera singer or while I'm shaving, I could look like Lemmy from Motorhead or I can kind of mess around with different while I'm shaving. Anyway, I might as well see what kind of things I can do with my face just for a joke, you know, just to also enjoy the mundane parts of life more too. Yeah, you know. Philip who was the quadriplegic lost his wife to cancer, I believe, was it? Yeah. And then he had the paragliding, the paragliding accident. Yeah, the paragliding accident. And yeah, he says not living with her is more painful than being a quadriplegic. Yeah. That was really sad. Yeah. And then you have dress who comes from a very tough background. Obviously, he left his country in West Africa. Never you never leave your country for any, you know, like for any easy reason, right? Yeah. And now so he was obviously tough conditions back home. He moves to go to France to live with the aunt. And it's in a very disadvantaged community and already being an immigrant is incredibly difficult. You are moving to a country which you weren't raised in you weren't socialized into and so it's very hard to navigate everything that you knew about how human beings interact with each other is just it's not applicable anymore. And so you have to figure out how to how do I deal with this new environment. And a lot of the times our parents like the aunt, for example, she moved there as an older person. And so she never really, you know, with immigrants a lot of times, it's harder for the parents to integrate, you know, the older you are, the harder it is to integrate. And so if you're already in a disadvantaged position, it becomes even that much harder for you to make a life of yourself a comfortable life for yourself. And a lot of the times family situations, they repeat themselves, right? They replicate over time. Like if you come from a poorer family, then a lot of your the likelihood of you staying poor or higher, we see that, you know, dress is basically in that situation. And a lot of the times, unfortunately, when you have when you are an immigrant who is struggling in those ways, sometimes you turn to crime, because you're just so desperate, you don't understand the system that you're now this new system that you're now living in and how to make it in the system in a way that's like in a healthy way, you know? So at the end of the day, you still are human being and you do have certain needs and you have certain desires. And then you find yourself doing things like turning to crime, especially when you have immigrant parents who don't really understand, know how to cultivate you're growing up in a way that's going to help you assimilate to the system. And so that's basically I think what happens to dress. And it makes me it may be really sad, because even when he goes to the interview, he just said just sign my paper and say that you didn't want to hire me. Yeah, I think he just faced a lot of that. And he had been so he'd he built a defense against it. And he was like, I it's this is just the expectation. Yeah, let's make this rejection just part of our routine. Yeah, that's the thing that I thought about a about how many people there are who do go through those kinds of things. And you know, it's also an example of where people feel like, Oh, well, you know, if you feel like this is you can recognize this is an unfortunate situation, you find yourself in just, you know, really pursue a way to get out of it. But it really is tough when you don't everyone else you know is in the same spot. It's and no one really has any idea of like, Oh, why don't you try this? I know that could be good for you. When basically, everyone you go to is just like, I'm just yeah, I really have nothing to help you with. And so it's really tough to, to on your own, basically, keep every day trying to find something that will help you, I don't know, get you out of whatever you find yourself in. It's really tough. Yeah, you see people struggling. Yeah, you know, and, and you or maybe people homeless people, not always just themselves that's holding them back. Yeah, exactly. You know, sometimes you're trying. And then people in your life hold you back, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So that also made me sad. I don't know. I know I know I clicked it. I don't have this but sometimes I'm just like, is it correct? I have this. If I have to have any worry or fear, it's that I'm just talking to no one and it's not captured. Oh, my God, I would die. Not be good. They write that at the end. They explain what happens to two characters after the leaf moves back to Morocco turns out he's he was from there originally. And then dress moves back to Africa and has a farm, you know, and Algiers. Yeah. And that made me very sad. I don't know. Yeah, it made me sad. Just wondering if dress was okay. Yeah. You know, because sleep is well off. I just wondered if dress was okay. That's probably why they told you what happened after because they knew people were gonna want to know what happened to them both after. Yeah, I just hope he is. And yeah, and that the friendship, it was obviously for me, the end, even though they don't explain it that time that okay, this is the end, but it was the way that they looked at each other. And you know, just, I don't know, like nodding at each other knowingly. It felt like they were saying, yeah, okay, you are gonna this lady's outfit. Yeah, you'll be okay. You don't need me anymore. Yeah. And so it was kind of like, this is it. Goodbye. I helped you for as long as I needed to and off. I just made it. Is that your favorite moment? No, my favorite moment. That was the moment that wrecked me. My favorite moment is when he he's like, I need to get some air like just take me somewhere and he's like, okay, I'll handle it. And then at one point, it takes him to a spot where you can see the ocean. There's just a big body of water. And and Philly just gives him this look of just like love and appreciation for him. It's it's the kind of I don't know. It's the kind of look that a man that once had true love for a woman could show to another man. I'm getting emotional again. I think relationships like the one that Dris and Philippe have are so hard to come by. Having that level of reciprocity in a relationship, that level of care and appreciation for someone and where both parties are showing that, you know, and both parties are truly fulfilled by this relationship. That is so hard to come by. So that's why I was I feel sad even now that they weren't it didn't they weren't living or Dris didn't continue to be at the caretaker. And I do sincerely that hope that he's both of them are well. One could say, well, you know, like, you know how we always talk about sometimes people need each other in a certain period of time. And they needed to he needed Dris needed to be his caregiver for that moment that time. And that's it, right? And the next chapter and the next chapter. And it doesn't necessarily mean that the next chapter is a negative one. It's kind of like with parents, you know, when their kids move out of the house, it's still sad. It's a chapter. It's a new chapter. You don't have your kids, your kids aren't kids anymore. They're your peers because they're adults now. And that is a new dynamic as a new relationship. And you have to come to terms with the fact that you're not going to spend as much time with them anymore. But because they were such a meaningful part of your life for so long. And of course, especially if you had that great deep connectedness that these two people had, it does feel, you know, I don't know, you feel you do feel very heartbroken by its ending, as much as you understand that it has to happen. You can always reread the chapter, but it won't be quite the same as the first time you read the chapter. You know how it ends. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it was a very beautifully done movie. The acting was just fantastic. I think the casting was just brilliant. The actors, Philippe, the guy who plays Philippe, whose name I don't remember. I think it's not same as Cluzet. I don't know. I don't remember. But and then Omar, Omar say, who played say so I see who played S why he played dress such a fantastic, incredible actor. He's the guy the Lupin guy. Yeah, yeah, it's a it's a movie that everything ensemble, it makes you want to be a helper with that guy at his house because of you start to connect with all the other helpers. Yvonne, Magalene, such a yeah, that's the market for you know, it affects you long after you watch it. That's the kind of quality that everyone should aspire to. Yeah, in whatever you do. What would you give it? 100 out of 10. Yep. Yeah, 110 ripe tomatoes. So 1000% on ripe tomatoes. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. But what'd you guys think? Have you guys seen into shade into shabla or the untouchables or just untouchable in English? Yeah, what do you think? Did it? Are you still? Are you still affected by it too? Let us know in the comments. Yeah, I'm still affected. Yeah, I'm still affected. Okay, be affected. Yeah, I'm affected by a lot of stuff all the time. Every time. That's it. Till next time. I'm gonna cry. Yeah, so we gotta cut right now. Bye.