WHY NOW? BECAUSE A SCENE HAS SUCCEEDED IN ECLIPSING THE VIRTUOSITY OF A DIRECTOR...THE DEPTH OF A SUBJECT...THE ORIGINALITY OF A SCENARIO...IN SHORT, A CRAZY FILM!!!.
It is true that some scenes in this film are downright unbearable....but that is precisely its strength.
He confronts us with our own apathetic behavior in the face of horror and cruelty...like dead beings...we become consumer machines who have no longer any interaction with what we see or hear. We shouldn't be able to look at a murder, a rape, a crime, an assault...as if it were nothing. In life this is not the case.
Gaspar Noé has achieved the feat ... the ultimate goal of cinema: to make us live a unique experience and make us forget that we were at the cinema.
He made the screen disappear and we found ourselves alone with life... and that scared us.
The film's reverse timeline makes us realize that there were dozens of moments and choices that could have led to another ending (or beginning) but it didn't happen.
Life is cruel and can't be explained, yes it reminds us the futility of our lives that can change in a second.
That's why we resent him...or we love him.
LEGEND 1
“ Time destroys everything. Soon, you'll realize that this beautiful flower will not die one day...this flower is not doing anything but dying more and more everyday.”
LEGEND 2
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" Nothing on this screen is more schoking… than you watchin hours of crimes on TV, , layed on your couch with absolutely no reaction, like your soul was gone. ”
May 24, 2002
The movie IRREVERSIBLE is presented officially at the festical of CANNES. The film was so shocking that 250 people walked out, some needing medical attention................ READ THE FULL ARTICLE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY RIGHT HERE.
