Touches You

Admirable film.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The world of tiny things is viewed, greatly magnified, as if you were as tiny as an insect. This fascinating film, although officially a documentary, is actually a work of art, depicting the beauty, as well as the ugliness, that exists at that level. There is no story, only many wonderful episodes, beautifully filmed. All aspects of life are depicted: mating, birth, death, violence etc. The mating scenes range from humorous to romantically sensual. The sounds of nature are sometimes enhanced by music and the sights by time-lapse photography. You may recognize some of the scenes; they were used in several TV commercials.

"Beyond anything we could imagine, yet almost beneath our notice." An exquisite film, painfully beautiful. It's relatively easy to find beauty in the majestic Grand Tetons, Monument Valley, or the brooding giants of a Big Tree forest. This film finds incredible beauty unnoticed at our feet.Ants drinking raindrops, or clustered around a tiny puddle -- then sharing back at the nest.Caterpillars marching in close formation.Ladybugs as the voracious predators they are. Ants protecting their aphids from the ladybug. Ants drinking the nectar exuded by the aphids they farm.Two snails locked in loving embrace.Alien-looking mantids suddenly taking notice of the camera.Beetles in extended combat. We are not shown why.A mosquito emerging from pupa. A butterfly also. A caterpillar hatching from an egg -- then eating the shell.Winged ants crowding out of the nest for their nuptial flight.Caterpillars in weird diversity, one with two horns on its posterior that extrude and retract bright red filaments. What /are/ they?The film is almost entirely visual. There are only a few seconds of voice-over at beginning and end, and the soundtrack is very low-key, for the most part, of the natural sounds of the action. Occasional light touches of music or choral voices nicely complement the photography.I was struck by the cleanliness! Bugs cleaning, cleaning, cleaning! Even an earthworm emerging from burrow glistens in pristine translucent beauty. After viewing this film, how could anyone say that bugs are dirty?

Anyone that gives this movie a bad review is retarded for renting it in the first place. What were you expecting? Acted out scenes? Dialogue? Morgan Freeman voice-over? It's a beautifully-made film showing bugs and a few minutes from their orderly lives. It's uniquely filmed in a way unseen in film/TV before its release. Dismissing it as "boring" or not educational enough is... I can't even express the close-minded idiocy of that kind of attitude. It is what it is. A beautiful, and musical, DISPLAY of insects going about their boring lives, but it's a boredom we never truly witness, and therefore it's very interesting. The quality of the film-making and the time put into the film-making deserves respect.I ultimately HATE pretty much all bugs, but this is an EXCELLENT film and I was intrigued from start to finish, and that's counting multiple viewings.

This film is original, they didn't base it on any book or film or anything. The characters are very believable because they are real and bugs cannot act. There was special effects used such as speeding up time to make the bugs go faster, apart from that no other special effects were used. It is arty because it's got special effects that don't affect the story. The story showed bugs living there every day lives. I didn't really enjoy the film, especially as it was so long for a film with no narrative. The film is non-narrative cinema. The film hasn't got a soundtrack because all the way through it there is sounds like birds, water, etc.