Try Irreversible.aqua_tek wrote:gonna bump this cause I just saw this flick.
HO... LY... FUCKING FUCK.
Worst decision ever to watch this just before bed. Need to watch some other movie just to wind down cause I can't sleep.
Enter the Void
Re: Enter the Void
Re: Enter the Void
I'd seen Irreversible already.
Didn't mess me up like Enter the Void did.
Didn't mess me up like Enter the Void did.
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Re: Enter the Void
The first half of Enter the Void is pretty great, but it devolved into a mess. Basically the last third of the movie is the chick moaning, for what seemed like 45 minutes. Halfway through I found it thrilling filmaking, but he clearly didn't know how to end it and by the end it was laughable. Overall, an ambitious film with a ton of ideas and it deserves credit for that. The drugginess aspect is fantastic, something that's hard to capture in movies and rarely approximated well but it's handled expertly in this film.
Irreversible is a masterpiece. Hard to watch but the most clear expression violence that I've seen on film. I had read that it was conceived as a protest against new French anti-pornography laws that could potentially lead to censorship of art. So it was intended as an artistic statement before the law went into effect. The story unfolds backward, from end to beginning. Among other things, it explores the reality of violence towards women, the consequences of revenge, the impotence of rage, and extreme subcultures representing the darkest parts of civilization and the human mind. It's about as stark and harsh of an example of art holding a mirror to society as your ever going to see.
Irreversible is a masterpiece. Hard to watch but the most clear expression violence that I've seen on film. I had read that it was conceived as a protest against new French anti-pornography laws that could potentially lead to censorship of art. So it was intended as an artistic statement before the law went into effect. The story unfolds backward, from end to beginning. Among other things, it explores the reality of violence towards women, the consequences of revenge, the impotence of rage, and extreme subcultures representing the darkest parts of civilization and the human mind. It's about as stark and harsh of an example of art holding a mirror to society as your ever going to see.