I think where Irreversible failed was with the characters. I
didn't really care about them. If the events had been
presented in chronological order it would have been
completely uninteresting. Guy Pearce's character in Memento,
on the other hand, was sympathetic. I felt for his situation
and his problems, and I think the movie was much more
successful at driving home the point of the pointlessness of
revenge, which was theme I think both films were trying to
make.
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> > 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
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