ya that was definetly a one time watch kind of thing. sometimes I give that film to one of my friends "c'mon, you'll love this movie, its great fun":p

Nothing wrong with you. Bloodlust is hardwired into the human condition and has been explioted by storytellers since story itself began.

-Cave paintings of the hunt and the kill
-The brutals fights in the Epic of Gilgamesh
-Oedipus, Medea, Antigone (throwing sex into the mix)
-Beowulf
-Romeo & Juliet is a freakin' bloodbath (to say nothing of Titus Andronicus)
-The Grand Guignol of Paris

and on and on and on

Us horror geeks are just a little more in tune with (and less afraid of) our inherent bloodlust:D

+ IRREVERSIBLE SPOILER +


I'm hesitant to watch Irreversible again, in anticipation of the rape scene. Knowing that this alarming ten minutes is always coming is something of a turn off every time.

Interestingly, even once the rape has passed in the middle of the movie, the viewer knows it has yet to happen as we reach the end - so catharsis never arrives. Only re-watching the film and witnessing the retribution right at the start provides any relief, and even this is shattered when we learn that the man battered to death was not the villain.

All things considered, this could well turn out to be one of the most important films of this century.

a lot of things are hardwired into the human condition - that we've conditioned ourselves out of.
(well most of us)

supposedly there has been a progression away from the time when we bashed someones head in with a rock because we wanted what he had.

i think i understand it - and aknowledge it .... but in tune with it ?
i hope not !

I own everything from Disney to porn, and I have a lot of stuff that people freak out about. For example, I own Grease 2. Yes, it's a horrible movie. Yes, most people don't like it. The fact is, the more you annoy me about my shitty movies the more I'm going to put them on every time you come visit. Then eventually, you either stop bitching or don't come over.
Very simple.

Hell................ that's what I should do! What a great way to intentionally annoy someone who's being stupid.

wait. explain this to me, isaw the film with chinese subtitles, so i wasnt really in tune with what was going on..who was killed then?

Whoo-boy...

My dad, Master of Inconsistencies and Double Standards is constantly riding my case about my love for horror. Then, friends and neighbors, he goes on and on quoting shit from the Old Testament, which is nothing but one bloody bloodbath after another, and often times "God" sanctions the killing of children.

I tend to like horror films for the same reason I like ghost stories: the story. For me: Case closed.

a collegue, pay attention and you'll see le tenia is in the crowd in the club but it is not him who attacks vincent cassel, and is then attacked by the ex husband.

agreed - this film turns almost every cinematic convention on its head and really deconstructs the whole experience of watching a film. . . disturbing but undeniably powerful