Skin and Touch

Keeping Rosy Trailer 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtTwnb5y0h0 
 
When it comes to body genres, there are so many different films that can be brought into this quite broad area of film. There are horrors and melodramas, but a majority of the time I find the thrillers to be the most engaging especially when it comes to the body; skin and touch. One of the most engaging things about thrillers is that there doesn't have to be gore, or sappy moments, or even explosions. Thrillers engage the audience by telling it in a way that allows them to feel what is going on within the film in that moment in time, and keeps everyone 'on their toes'. Recently I watched Keeping Rosy, an independent British thriller. Without giving anything away, Keeping Rosy is about a woman named Charlotte that is fragile and unsure of her, and when life seems to get bad, it gets worse when she does something unthinkable and continues on with life, but with fear at hand. When watching this film, there was not a moment where I did not feel uneasy or fearful myself. What I noticed within my own aspects of watching this film was that the main character had such a strong emotional sense to her, that it made me feel like that as well and made my body crawl up into a little ball. It was intense, because of the sense of danger that everyone is in. There we so many moments in the film where it the interaction of every character within the skin and touch concept. Each physical moment or interaction between all the characters were a further indication of something bigger was arising within the film. A slight touch, a hit to the face, those moments no matter how small they were, were emphasized because it played such a huge role to the characterization of each character. When watching the film, you realise each touch is a decent into each characters madness, especially between the two main characters, they fall into a deep emotional and mental state that they cannot get out of, and begin to show that physically. When something physical happens to a character for example being hit, there is a feeling of pain, but you are the one who is safe. The audience whilst watching this will definitely feel that tension between each character, and what the ‘skin and touch’ element adds is that it illustrates what can happen, what is going to happen, or what already happen within the film.