Yixian
March 1st, 2007, 09:22 PM
I'm pretty new here so I don't really know what kinds of films etc. you guys are into, but I'll try this out, see if anyone has seen it.
Irréversible by Gaspar Noé!
It's a French film set in Paris, essentially a revenge flick, but taking detours down various seedy aspects of modern life. Unlike many other revenge films, though, it considers a concept rarely touched upon by any kind of mainstream art, really, and one that we generally don't think about, but one that everybody finds truly disturbing - the namesake, irreversability.
I despise irreversability, it digusts me. I am terrified of it. The thought that a terrible or tragic act has occured, of the acceptance that even one could occur, without the slightest possibility of reconciliation, instills in me real - real horror.
For this reason I suggest you all go out and rent it, or achieve it by some means (plenty of torrents about) - it's the kind of film I'm sure will have many a philosophyforums poster revealing in the implications of it's various messages for a long time.
But be warned. I consider myself to be pretty much unshockable when it comes to cinema, but this is without a doubt also the most disturbing film I have ever seen in my life. I mean really, it's horrific, it doesn't matter how much cinematic gore or psychological horror you've subjected yourself too, this film really does go too far. Whether it was necessery for it too, I don't know... possibly.
Anyway, I hope you'll go check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irréversible
But again, be warned, this is both gore-wise and psychologically the most terrifying film I have ever seen. There are many critics who regard this as one of the greatest films of all time, but there's no denying that it's more than you're average - watching Irréversible is quite an experience.
Irréversible by Gaspar Noé!
It's a French film set in Paris, essentially a revenge flick, but taking detours down various seedy aspects of modern life. Unlike many other revenge films, though, it considers a concept rarely touched upon by any kind of mainstream art, really, and one that we generally don't think about, but one that everybody finds truly disturbing - the namesake, irreversability.
I despise irreversability, it digusts me. I am terrified of it. The thought that a terrible or tragic act has occured, of the acceptance that even one could occur, without the slightest possibility of reconciliation, instills in me real - real horror.
For this reason I suggest you all go out and rent it, or achieve it by some means (plenty of torrents about) - it's the kind of film I'm sure will have many a philosophyforums poster revealing in the implications of it's various messages for a long time.
But be warned. I consider myself to be pretty much unshockable when it comes to cinema, but this is without a doubt also the most disturbing film I have ever seen in my life. I mean really, it's horrific, it doesn't matter how much cinematic gore or psychological horror you've subjected yourself too, this film really does go too far. Whether it was necessery for it too, I don't know... possibly.
Anyway, I hope you'll go check it out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irréversible
But again, be warned, this is both gore-wise and psychologically the most terrifying film I have ever seen. There are many critics who regard this as one of the greatest films of all time, but there's no denying that it's more than you're average - watching Irréversible is quite an experience.