CoenRem
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I have just witnessed this film. I will remember it for a long time indeed. This must be one of the hardest films I've ever seen. We are used to films in where good prevails and evil is punished. This one breaks that rule, and leaves deep scars behind.
The scenes in Irreversible are presented backwards. There is no introduction of characters. So one starts to judge the characters on what they do. A guy, who is'nt introduced, gets arrested in a gay SM-bar. He is beat up a little but nothing too serious. OK, you think, how did this happen? Why is this dude carried away?
Well, this becomes clear in the next scene: He brutally murders a man by smashing his face in with an iron fire-extinguisher, endlessly. He smashes his face to pulp. It apparently takes some time to kill a man with a fire extinguisher, which the director is all too glad to show in great detail.
Why did he do this? What caused such rage? We see this man crying over the body of mutaleted woman. His girlfriend, apparently. Why is she mutaleted? I feared to know. I have watched in absolute horror how she was being sodomized in a pedestrians tunnel. After the violence of being raped, she is kicked into a coma. Once again this brutal scene is shown in all its horrific details.
It left me with a feeling of total confusion: surely there must have been a reason for all this violence?
This is where Irreversible gets really cruel: There is no reason.
The rest of the film serves to deepen your sympathy for the victims. The more you get to know about the characters, the more you get to like them. BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN!
Irreversible does not judge anything; it just shows you a terribly sad story in reverse. This makes it even sadder by eliminating any sort of happy ending all together.
This is NOT a happy movie. You are NOT dared to watch this.
Regards,
Coen Rem, Eindhoven
The scenes in Irreversible are presented backwards. There is no introduction of characters. So one starts to judge the characters on what they do. A guy, who is'nt introduced, gets arrested in a gay SM-bar. He is beat up a little but nothing too serious. OK, you think, how did this happen? Why is this dude carried away?
Well, this becomes clear in the next scene: He brutally murders a man by smashing his face in with an iron fire-extinguisher, endlessly. He smashes his face to pulp. It apparently takes some time to kill a man with a fire extinguisher, which the director is all too glad to show in great detail.
Why did he do this? What caused such rage? We see this man crying over the body of mutaleted woman. His girlfriend, apparently. Why is she mutaleted? I feared to know. I have watched in absolute horror how she was being sodomized in a pedestrians tunnel. After the violence of being raped, she is kicked into a coma. Once again this brutal scene is shown in all its horrific details.
It left me with a feeling of total confusion: surely there must have been a reason for all this violence?
This is where Irreversible gets really cruel: There is no reason.
The rest of the film serves to deepen your sympathy for the victims. The more you get to know about the characters, the more you get to like them. BUT YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN!
Irreversible does not judge anything; it just shows you a terribly sad story in reverse. This makes it even sadder by eliminating any sort of happy ending all together.
This is NOT a happy movie. You are NOT dared to watch this.
Regards,
Coen Rem, Eindhoven
I must admit that I was very sceptical about this documentary. I was expecting it to be the kind of All American Propaganda that we here in Europe dislike so much. I was wrong. This is NOT propaganda, in fact it is hardly political at all.
It depicts the events of 9/11 through the eyes of the firefighters called to the scene just after the planes crashed. It is an amazing coinsidence that this documentary was filmed at all! This film was initially shot as a documnetary about a rookie NY firefighter becoming "a man". We can only thank the film makers that they continued their work during the terrible ordeal that faced them.
A great piece of work. Absolutely stunning material. Highly recommended.
Regards,
It depicts the events of 9/11 through the eyes of the firefighters called to the scene just after the planes crashed. It is an amazing coinsidence that this documentary was filmed at all! This film was initially shot as a documnetary about a rookie NY firefighter becoming "a man". We can only thank the film makers that they continued their work during the terrible ordeal that faced them.
A great piece of work. Absolutely stunning material. Highly recommended.
Regards,
Well,
Not the masterpiece I was hoping for, but a good movie none the less.
8 out of 10.
Regards,
Not the masterpiece I was hoping for, but a good movie none the less.
8 out of 10.
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