Irreversible...

[Mockery]

I was just handed a copy of this movie today and was told I'll find it extremely hard to watch. Have any of you seen it? If so, is it really that harsh?

[pjalne]

I don't know what your threshold is, but the is a chance a couple of incidents, one in the beginning and one at the middle, will put some ice in your stomach. The whole movie is made out of (I think) five continous takes, and it's not as much the elements theselves that make it rough, but how drawn-out they are. Angles, cuts and use of other uses of filmatic vocabulary (music etc) help distance us from subject matter, but when you're forced to stay in the moment and don't have those comforts, the experience becomes a lot different.

I'm pretty sure you shouldn't have any trouble getting through it, but I wouldn't eat anything more gross than a carrot while watching it.

[Emu]

What's bad about this movie? Is it shitty or gory? :x

[pjalne]

BIG spoilers:

There's a scene where a guy's head is smashed to a pulp with a fire extinguisher, and while it's in a disco with strobe lights it's depicted in pretty gruesome detail. There's also a rape scene that feels like it goes on for half an hour, and like I said, there are no cuts.

[Mockery]

Can't say I enjoyed that film...

The spoiler scenes which Pjalne mentions were definitely brutal... and the constantly "let's move the camera all over the fucking place to make this movie seem more artsy!" got tired really fast. It didn't really push my "threshold" or anything, I just didn't find there to be much to the whole thing other than someone trying real hard to make a movie that would shock people.

[Command Prompt]

IMDB:

Trivia: The first 30 minutes of the film has a background noise with a frequency of 28Hz (low frequency, almost inaudible), similar to the noise produced by an earthquake. In humans, it causes nausea, sickness and vertigo. It was the main cause of people walking out of the theaters during the first part of the film in places like Cannes and San Sebastian. In fact, it was added with the purpose of getting this reaction.

[FS]

did the director hate humanity, or something?

[Krythor]

I hate the frenchie foo-foo artsiness but I loved the bittersweet ending.