Touches You

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Nice opening and closing 3-dimensional effect zooming into (and out of, at the end) an elaborately embroidered tapestry having the characters of the story - mother goat and 3 kids, fox, snake, bird, and personality-imbued sun, cloud, and magic carpet - and their environment colorfully depicted.Some nice whimsical touches - the sun tickles a cloud to get rain, and throws little fireballs at the fox when he's trying to enter the goat's house through the roof - and the cloud quickly rains on the roof when it catches on fire. In the face-off between the mother goat and the wolf, she burnishes her horns while he is flossing his teeth immediately before the conflict.Both the wolf and the egg-stealing snake get their comeuppance at the end and tranquility is regained.Whatever the origin of fables/fairy tales, there are common threads in both Iranian and American tales - and anyone from any culture could be easily involved in the story told here.