Apr 20, 2014 15:08
"Touch" starred Kiefer Sutherland who was famous for "Twentyfour". He acted the loving father, Martin Bohm. He has his son who is 11-year- old boy, Jake. Jake has never said a single word since he was born. At first, the audience believe that Jake is autistic. But Martin starts to think that Jake is not autistic, because Jake has something strange ability.
Martin's wife died in the World Trade Center during the Septermber 11 attakcs. Since then, Martin has tried hard to raise Jake alone. However, Martin couldn't talk with Jake and touch his body because of Jake's mental illness.
Martin had been reporter before. But he's moved from job to job since his wife died. Now he works as a door man at the JFK airport in New York. However he leads a rich life because of his wife's inheritance. They live in a splendid flat in NY.
Jake has also moved from school to school. He's changed the school five times in seven years. He has never spoken a word, but is faschinated by numbers and patterns relating to numbers. He spends much time writing them down on the notebook.
One day, Martin found a mobile phone in the Lost and found Box during he was working. Suddenly the mobile phone rang. He received the phone from the owner of it. He asked Martin to return it back to him. Martin accepted a proposal, but he forgot to do that because of Jake. Martin received the phone-call from the police. The police man asked him to come to the cell tower right now, because Jake climbed up the tower. This is the three times.
After the trouble, Martin and Jake went to the shop to buy drinks. They met a man in the shop. The man was buying lottery. Suddenly Jake started to write the lottery number. Returning home, Jake wrote the lottery number again and again. At the time, their mobile phone received the call. the call number is the same as the lottery number. It's mystery. After that Martin watched the news and found the lottery won. Martin was really surprised. He thought that Jake had mysterical and spiritual idea. After that, a man called Martin. He was a fireworker, and he couldn't rescue Martin's wife during the 9.11 attack. Since then, he had bought the same number's lottery many times. Finally he won the lottery, so he told Martin that he would like to give all money. He was the man who Martin and Jake met in the shop. Martin was really surprised again.
Martin forgot the man who asked him to return it. The man went to Japan on business. Hoewever the mobile phone frew from NY to Ireland. The mobile phone was found by stranger in Ireland. The finder recorded the his girl-friend. She was singing in the video. She is an operator in a mobile phone company in Ireland, but is dreaming of becoming a singer. After that, the finder put it in traveler's baggage. The traveler flew from Ireland to Japan. In Japan, some young girl found it, and enjoyed wathcing the video. And they were a big fan of her, and made a fan club for her. Then they put it in another baggage. The baggage flew from Japan to Bughdad. A young boy found the mobile phone. He leads a poor life with his family. His parent keep a bakery shop, but the oven was broken. They have no money to repair it. The young boy stole a oven for his parent, but he was found out by the owner who is a member of terrorist. The young boy was forced to have the self-detonating device. It is put in the mobile phone. He was crying. At that time, the operator called him, and asked him to let her know the reason why he has the mobile phone. But he didn't afford to answer the question. The operator found that he was in serious situation. She advised him to take off the battery from the mobile phone. Thanks to her, he could escape death. The operator doesn't know the fact that the mobile phone includes the video her friend recorded before.
The story tells us that numbers has patterns in the universe. And also, it shows us that numbers connects with people. It's mytery. Jake can see the invisible and the future. He is not autistic any more. He tris to let you know the message. We have to read his message through the numbers.