十五岁的加博，表面过着平凡简单的青少年生活，背后却隐藏着不可告人的秘密—-他恋上好友的弟弟，而弟弟只有八岁！他在网上论坛寻求建议，试图抑制恋童欲望，因而结识了恋少年经验丰富的戴夫。直至戴夫因涉嫌侵犯未成年少年受到警方调查，加博终于不得不面对一场自我审问：他到底是受害人，还是施害者？改编自真实事件，来自德国的史蒂夫.巴赫大胆直面禁忌话题，以敏锐成熟的笔触，探问生活与社会规范怎样塑造了今时今日的我们。
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. Writer and director Addison Heimann’s second feature film is provocatively comedic, inventive, and insane in the best possible way. An ode to the deliriously stylistic lens of Japanese cinema in the ’60s and ’70s, Touch Me dares to “go there” with its themes of mental health, desire, and Hentai-infused sexual abandon. Olivia Taylor Dudley sinks into character to portray a fractured and wandering human being in desperate need of a life-affirming touch, while Lou Taylor-Pucci’s tracksuit-clad alien persona is played to delightful perfection. Jordan Gavaris and Marlene Forte round out an impeccable cast of far-out characters who manage to be at once acrimonious yet relatable. The end result is a weird, wild, and frenzied fever dream with so much to unpack. While we may not be able to relieve ourselves of self-doubt, deep-seated childhood trauma, and debilitating anxiety with the simple touch of an extraterrestrial being, maybe life isn’t so bad after all?
