In a message dated 2/14/08 6:11:56 AM,
fabsoldini@yahoo.fr writes:
> Yes, Irreversible is poorest compared to Mememto as
a crime movie. It's
> more about relationship between a man and a women.
I'm not so sure that the rape
> scene was gratuitious. RI think That Gaspard Noe
tries to show the horror of
> a rape in a realistic way, to explain the cruelty of
the murder. the first
> barbary we see (the murder) is narrativelu justified
by a first one barbary.
> It' because the rape is very abject that the revenge
is really violent
>
as difficult as that rape scene is to endure, the murder that
opens the picture is something to behold. a guy gets his face
beat in with a fire extinguisher (IIRC) in one long take. I
watched the picture with a director I was working with at the
time, and neither of us could figure out how they did
it
Irreversible is certainly no Memento. Memento is endlessly
watchable and Irreversible makes you want to bury the DVD
under your house. but what's most interesting to watch is how
the cinematic style changes as the story moves backward to
its beginning. frenetic and skewed from fade up. serene and
beatific at fade out. almost like a happy ending if you
didn't have the disturbing knowledge that it ain't exactly
so
John Lau
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