Irreversible. I've only seen it once and I never want to see it again. A fucking horror show of a film that will climb into your head and stay there for days, weeks afterwards. Two men are arrested. One is badly injured. We don't know what happened to them. The film skips back in time. The two men find and brutally crush the skull of a man in a sex club while others stand around watching and masturbating. The film skips back in time once more. The same two men attack a trans woman, threatening to castrate her if she doesn't give them the information they want. Time skip. We find out why they are angry. The fiancee of one of them has been brutally raped and beaten to half to death in an underpass in a scene that goes on for nearly ten minutes. They went to kill the man who raped her but when we see this scene we find out they've killed the wrong man. The film skips back in time again and we find out she's pregnant, she's happy and she has no idea what's coming. It's brutal, horrifying viewing, clever in the way it's laid out but disgusting to actually watch. Director Gasper Noé rubs your face in everything. He never cuts away. He wants us to be uncomfortable, to make us squirm. He succeeds royally.
Fuck Gasper Noé.
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