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February 28, 2005
Irreversible on DVD, 2/27/05
I have a friend who really likes this movie and I was eager to see it. Problem was it turned out to be quite a disappointment. I couldn't figure out the reason to tell this story backward except to tell each section of the movie as a different genre of film. Existential conversation, gritty horror movie, revenge flick, breakup story, sex comedy then finally, life affirming love story.
The biggest problem was a rape scene that I'm pretty certain lasted 20 minutes. It was gratuitous and, worse of all, the woozy camera work that had been flitting around the scenes and making me nauseous, stopped and stood still. It gave me one very long look at a nasty scene played out in all its gruesome brutality. I think it's telling that the short feature on special effects brags about giving the rapist a virtual penis. It's also telling that I didn't realize that they'd killed the wrong man until I watched those extra features. When all the joy in a film goes to making suffering so realistic and visceral, I'm sure I just don't need to see it.
Posted by deaconmf at February 28, 2005 11:59 AM
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