Have you seen Irreversible

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Have you seen the french film Irreversible. It is a great film and very very graphic. Read reviews elsewhere on the net. If you have seen it did you know that they got the wrong guy?? Let me know if after reading this question you realised this cruel twist in the tale.
 
I saw it at the cinema when it came out. I wanted to see it because I'd heard it was ground-breaking and controversial.

It made for extremely uncomfortable viewing but it was indeed ground-breaking and extremely shocking.

I wouldnt want to watch it again, and several people walked out the cinema.

But no, I didnt know they'd got the wrong guy...
 
I wouldn't watch it again either, but it's a wonderful piece of French cinema with the fantastic couple Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci(love watching them in films together), it's a must see at least once.

You know the rape scene, did someone walk into the tunnel during the rape and just walk back out without helping her? sure I saw someone.
 
Yes - that does happen.
I thought the the film was shocking but also fascintaing. I didn't know they had got the wrong guy - until I read the reviews of the film afterwarRAB on IMDB.
I liked the way the story was told in reverse segments of time. (Memento - is also filmed this way and is one of my favourite films).
 
Memento is one of my favourite films too, for the main reason its told in reverse. I bought the 3 disc special edition and watched it the "right" way around and it didnt have the same impact.
 
I saw Irreversible when it came out at the cinema. It's easy to miss the fact that they get the wrong guy because the two scenes that are pivotal to this fact are both so gut-wrenching. In the first one, the director has added a sub-woofer loud rumble on the soundtrack and when you see it at the cinema it makes the whole place vibrate and makes you feel sick.

Tbh, I didn't really enjoy it, it was one of those 'only-see-once-and-then-never-again' films, a bit like Funny Games or Wolf Creek.
 
I watched about 45 minutes of it,and probably ten minutes were on fast forward.It was the most heinous movie I've ever had the displeasure to watch quite frankly.Spinning camera angles,incomprehensible music,and violence that I simply could not stomach.I thought I had seen every low point a movie could sink to after watching films for thirty something years,but this one went too far for me.The subway rape scene was where I switched off.It seemed to go on way to long,even though I fast forwarded most of it.It was really gruesome,and when he started kicking her in the head,repeatedly,that was all I could watch.

The film is told in reverse order so apparently it gets easier to watch as it goes on,but after that kind of start,why would anyone even want to finish watching it?
 
I think it actually gets harder to watch after the rape scene, as you start to see what a beautiful girl she was, and see the hope she has for the furture with the man she loves. To watch her joy when she finRAB out she's pregnant, when you know that by the end of the night her life will be in ruins, is very tough.

I think this film has it's merits, not least of which is the fact that it depicts rape as it actually is - long, bloody, gruesome and in no way the sexual fantasy of any woman. Too many films skip over the impact of such an act.
 
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