Tuesday 19 May 2009

first time a film has ever made me wretch


last night i started to watch the french film Irreversible.i had heard how terrible it was,and about the "fire extinguisher"scene,but it was worse than i had imagined.firstly the way the film was shot really made the start of the film as seedy and dark as it was obviously meant to be.but i found it a little hard going,however i was intrigued to see where it was going.i started to watch the "revenge" scene but almost as soon as the violence started i just couldn't take it.i literally had to get off the sofa and leave the room.unfortunately i could still hear the gut wrenching sounds.mikee did turn it off then,but the scene stuck in my head for a good while after.i know that it's "only a film" and that ultimately it tells some of the story,but i found it really impossible to watch.maybe because it was so gritty and realistic?for example,i have watched and really enjoyed films like switchblade romance,frontiers and last house on the left(remake) but i suppose they had a little more absurdity and glossed over sheen to them.something about the film disturbed me almost straightaway.and i didn't even get to the ten minute long rape scene.however,after reading reviews of the film,i'm in two minds.i definitely will not watch that murder scene again and i doubt i could sit through the rape scene...but the rest of the film is apparently not violent and really paves the way for the start of the film(which is actually the ending as the film plays as if backwards).apparently it really gets you as the film ends with so much hope in life but you know how it ends.

5 comments:

  1. Oh god, I just had the same experience with a movie called Cannibal Holocaust. Worst movie ever...so obscenely violent & graphic. It totally ruined my week. And I can usually handle some weird shit! But I won't ever watch Irreversible if you don't watch Cannibal Holocaust.

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  2. ah my boyfriend loves that friggin film!i don't know if i've seen it...but if i haven't,i won't!fuck the downer films that make you wanna puke x

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  3. ooh i wanna see irreversable, but never got round to it! I'm gonna borrow it! :P xxx

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  4. Oh you would know if you've seen it. And it doesn't even get all that bad until the last 36 minutes! Then it ruins your week. I hate those types of movies too.

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