Homework to the 4th March

Untouchable – Analyse

Film Poster

The Intouchables (French: Intouchables, UK: Untouchable) is a 2011 French comedy-drama film directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. The Movie is about the friendship between the quadriplegic luxury older man Phillipe and his unconventional carer and later best friend Driss.

Placed is the drama in Fracne, Paris. Phillipe presents the stereotypical life of a rich white man and fits with all his characteristics in to the vision of a hyperperdomic old man. He likes classical music, goes to the opera, is interested in art and has expensive hobbies such as paragliding. Driss is the opposed. He comes from a bad are in Paris, and satisfies the stereotypical representation of black mans in the media. He tries to receive a welfare benefits, he does drugs and he steals.

Tow man from two worlds that couldn’t be more different. But this drama shows us how good it is to be open minded and not to judge the people by what their look like ore where they come from. Phillipe is wants to hire a new career. Arely in the first job of the whole job interview we can see that Driss doesn’t fit into Phillipe’s world. He is the candidate who has no ambitions to get hired. He is the only one who is wearing trainers and jeans. But in the end he gets the job because he treats Phillipe like he wouldn’t be quadriplegic. He has no pity for him and that is exactly was Phillipe is looking fore. No pity.

Driss and Phillipe start to benefit from each other and Phillipe gets happier and back alive. All his `friends’ are worried about him because they know that Dirss hasn’t got the best passed. They want him to be careful about who he lets in his house. But Phillipe doesn’t care about their thoughts. He likes Driss exactly for those facts. He treats him as if he wouldn’t be disable and often he event forgets that he is disable for example when he passes the telefon to Pfillipe and forgets that he can’t even hold the telephone on his own.

You can see the represented class difference for example in the scene where Dirss goes to the Opera with Phillipe. Everyone is wearing suits, pays attention and is quit. Driss is sitting there in his jumper and lather jacked and laughs laud about the singing tree he doesn’t fit in to that world.

By the time the relationship between those two different people grows to an extraordinary friendship. You can see how their influence each other. For example when Diss goes back to his ‘hood’ to meet his old friends. You still hear the classical background music what shows that he changed. Also at Phillipes Birthday party where Driss starts to play his music and made the guest t dance you can see that Phillipe adapted to Driss interests.

I really like the movie especially because it’s based on a true story. It presents a real story. No explosions, no extraordinary events just live. You can relate to it because it tells a story about a possible and beautiful friendship. If Phillipe wouldn’t be disable this two people would never have meet.