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<\/a>We\u2019re here to see a French movie, \u201cThe Intouchables.\u201d The word on the street is \u201csee it or else.\u201d We find our assigned seats. They are cushy comfy and actually rock. A phalanx of women plop down in front of us. I overhear one say she saw the movie two nights ago and loved it so much she had to see it again and bring her mother.<\/p>\nA maroon-festooned usher stands in front of the screen and personally welcomes us to the theater, reminds us to please turn off all the _you-know-what\u2019s_ and of course, enjoy the movie. Maybe he really wants to be an actor, but frankly the young man is so sweet and sincere that we give him a round of applause when he finishes his announcements. I think it\u2019s a very NPR kind of crowd.<\/p>\n
I am assuming this movie has something to do with feeling marginalized and untouchable. But in reality, it is so much more. The Intouchables is based on the memoirs of the two main characters. In other words, the story is true. Or about as true as one gets in our world where truth is a moving target\u2026<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about two outsiders, untouchables. One is a rich aristocrat who is a quadriplegic and a prisoner within his own body and his own mansion. He hires a caregiver, an ex-con from the ghetto, a rabble-rouser who is uncouth, brutally honest and above all, hilarious. I know it\u2019s clich\u00e9, but I laugh and laugh until I cry. Then I snivel some more.<\/p>\n
Spoiler Alert: Nobody dies in this movie, but be warned, there is profanity. But it\u2019s in French. That language is so beautiful even curse words sound like a marriage proposal. And reading the \u201cf\u201d bombs in subtitles, well \u201cc\u2019est si bon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why does a story about two men whose unlikely friendship transforms them both resonate so deeply with audiences around the world? Well maybe there is a trace of \u201cuntouchable\u201d in all our hearts. Maybe it\u2019s a universal thing, you know. So might as well laugh. That’s a good place to start.<\/p>\n
Just like they do in the movie and if we\u2019re lucky, like the aristocrat and the bad-boy, we find ourselves. Little by little. Because someone finds us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hubby and I don\u2019t get out much. We\u2019re too busy woodshedding on our ukuleles and doing \u201cmusic stuff.\u201d So it\u2019s a real treat to go to the movies and we have a hot date this morning at the mall cinema up the road. The one that shows foreign flicks. We\u2019re here to see a French movie, \u201cThe Intouchables.\u201d The word on the street is \u201csee it or else.\u201d We find our assigned seats. They are cushy comfy and actually rock. … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentry"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"blog entry"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cali Rose","author_link":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/author\/crbauthor\/"},"comment_info":8,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"blog entry","slug":"blogentry","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":138,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":138,"category_description":"","cat_name":"blog entry","category_nicename":"blogentry","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calirose.com\/wackyworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}