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Posted by tinear (A) on April 04, 2006 at 17:51:32

In Reply to: Re: "Irreversible:" another ugly movie from Noe posted by Victor Khomenko on April 4, 2006 at 08:45:33:

So, you must agree with my criticism of Goodfellas and the Godfather movies that they are amoral?
Actually, I didn't find Irreversible "bad," at all. It made me think a lot about male-female relationships, our animal natures. After all, what commonly occurs to women in war zones or in occupied areas (as a Russian, I'm sure you are very aware)?
And Germans and Russians, to name but two people with a terrible history during WWII in this very area of behavior, particularly are not known for moral depravity.
The more I consider this movie, the more I think reviewers missed it: it's not about the rape, it's about the revenge.
If you haven't seen Noe's (who is Argentinian living in France) previous film, you missed the connection of the first scene: one of the men in that hotel room was the protagonist of the earlier film, "I Stand Alone." He played the same character.