Those are a lot of interesting thoughts and points to make about such a mediocre work!
Okay, that comes off sounding snide, but it's the bad movies that don't inspire that kind of analysis; Very little cogitation could take place about - for example - Ali G Is In Da House.. And your point about the message involving the consequences of society's bigotry is excellent.
A couple minor counterpoints: anal rape causes rupture and bleeding from the ass, (as I've heard,) and I thought that was what he was referring to. I don't think being anally raped would cause an immediate miscarriage, but what do I know. ` She could have been reading that book later on as well, and why not? ` I did see a bulge, and rewound to see it again. Or did I? Again, I think that whole sequence was purposefully ambiguous. Women start showing at about 4 months - is that enough time for the face to heal up? I think so. He didn't cut it up, he just kicked it.
I have exposed myself to an unbelievable amount of gore and disgusting reality-based information, and have never really become desensitized to it. If I ever did I would be alarmed. The rape scene in Irreversible made me nauseous and angry. In my opinion, treating me to some kind of delicious retribution at the end of the movie would have reduced it without question to the status "mediocre". My rage about the crime I witnessed should not have been neatly snuffed.
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Re: But I must disagree!
Date: 2003-03-26 09:22 pm (UTC)Okay, that comes off sounding snide, but it's the bad movies that don't inspire that kind of analysis; Very little cogitation could take place about - for example - Ali G Is In Da House.. And your point about the message involving the consequences of society's bigotry is excellent.
A couple minor counterpoints: anal rape causes rupture and bleeding from the ass, (as I've heard,) and I thought that was what he was referring to. I don't think being anally raped would cause an immediate miscarriage, but what do I know. ` She could have been reading that book later on as well, and why not? ` I did see a bulge, and rewound to see it again. Or did I? Again, I think that whole sequence was purposefully ambiguous. Women start showing at about 4 months - is that enough time for the face to heal up? I think so. He didn't cut it up, he just kicked it.
I have exposed myself to an unbelievable amount of gore and disgusting reality-based information, and have never really become desensitized to it. If I ever did I would be alarmed. The rape scene in Irreversible made me nauseous and angry. In my opinion, treating me to some kind of delicious retribution at the end of the movie would have reduced it without question to the status "mediocre". My rage about the crime I witnessed should not have been neatly snuffed.
Isn't controversy fantastic?