Lets Reverse That Shit Please

So last night I had the wonderful pleasure of watching the movie Irreversible which is a French film. Holy shit, where do I begin? This had to be the most pretentious piece of crap that I have seen in a long time. I must preface the rest of this post with a warning: I will be giving away elements of plot if you desire to see this work of "art". The director, Gaspar Noe, is trying desperately to be profound in his discovery that there are choices that you make in life that you cannot undo. No Shit, Sherlock! The story is told backwards, like Memento, and there are various camps out there who beleive that it was a dream sequence which is really irrelevant. From what I can tell, the director really didn't have anything in particular that he wanted to say other than "choices are irreversible." There is a thread of women's issues (such as relationships, dating, pregnancy and rape) interwoven, but there is no clear underlying message to complete the arc and tie it together.

In the movie there is also a nine minute rape scene that is, let's say, not so fun to watch! I almost walked out of the room. Of course, I almost walked out of the room in the beginning of the movie because the director decided that he wanted to spin the camera around and see if he could nauseate the audience before he started inidating them with the rest of this crap that he called a movie. Complete and utter pretension!!!! The film was filled with gruesome violence and sex. Now normallly I am one that is all for violence in movies and sex and killing and shit like that. Some of my favorite movies are filled with it, ie. Kill Bill, Battle Royale, Reservoir Dogs, Mulholland Drive. In this film there was no point to it and it did not really serve a purpose as far as plot development (maybe because there is no point to the movie in the first place) I'm pretty sure the director made the movie on a dare and not because there was a story that needed to be told here.

To make matters worse, in the other corner of the room as we are viewing this atrocity, people are laughing and having a great time watching this Korean movie called Sex is Zero. I will have to watch that some other time.

Lastly, why must people be suckered into beleiving that just because the film is foreign or that the director is doing something "different" that the film is good? Sometimes people make bad films. This is not art! This is pretentious... learn to tell the difference. It doesn't matter where the shit comes from, it is still Shit! It doesn't matter if it is filmed upside down or if the scene is shot in one take or 52 billion takes, Crap is still Crap! God dammit I hate Pretentious Assholes. Stop that! Stop Being Stupid!