Irreversible (2002)
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Year: 2002
Directed by: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Monica Bellucci (Alex), Vincent Cassel (Marcus), Albert Dupontel (Pierre), Jo Prestia (Tenia), Philippe Nahon (The Butcher), Gaspar Noe (Guy jerking off at The Rectum)
Country: France, European Cinema
Language: French (English subs)
Runtime: 01:33:28
Genres: Rape-Sexual-Violence against Women, Revenge, Violence against Men, Gay, Racism
Plot – Spoilers:
Irreversible is one of the most controversial rape movies ever made due to its almost 10-minute-long single shot rape scene. It’s also a tale of revenge told in reverse – we start at the end (including credits) and move through segments narrated in reverse chronological order.
Alex is a young woman in a fairly happy relationship with Marcus. They’re headed out to a party with Alex’s ex, Pierre, tagging along. Pierre is a cerebral kind of dick who hasn’t gotten over Alex and is obsessed with his inability to get her to cum when they were together. Marcus is indulgent to Pierre but a bit of a fool especially when the drugs take over. Sitting between these two is Alex, who is a regular, kindly and social woman on the threshold of motherhood.
After Marcus and Pierre ruin her mood at a party, Alex decides to head home alone and takes a lonely underpass where she is anally raped and beaten brutally by a gay pimp. Marcus who is already high, goes hysterical and rabidly heads out looking for revenge, lugging a reluctant Pierre along.
The choice to narrate Irreversible in reverse was partly to help secure funding following the success of Memento. But it’s also an interesting option. If you started with Alex learning of her pregnancy and moved to her rape and the subsequent revenge (even though they got the wrong guy 🙂 ), it’s something we are used to – things getting fucked up. But doing it in reverse makes you unravel and understand better the person that has just been brutalized.
I started to get a slight boner during the rape scene, but my wife was right beside me watching together, so I distracted myself and successfully diffused the boner before she noticed and probably gonna question me. but why did I get aroused? I felt bad
If only Monica was a little boy in that rape scene,i wouldve came harder
Fuck off edgelord
What’s with people with a kink for ass fuck. Gross.
Sebian Film did just fine without camera flailing.
I saw this when it came out – and I feel the same now……powerful stuff. That rape scene, I really struggle to watch it. It just goes on and on and on, but that is point obviously. And when he starts booting her head in and and smashing it on the concrete floor, I can hardly watch.
And you know what? I am glad I find it hard to watch – means I am a normal human being.
most slurrpy R scene ever. yum
I masturbated while watching that 10 mins of real pleasure.
I rewatched it again and again
You people need Jesus, man.
I like how the whole movie is in reverse. from end to beginning. i totally get it now
Off to the rectum!
Pre-teen rectum?
that part was hilarious
lets go up the rectum
My son Steve used to rape me like this……..bbbbut now he’s only interested in the neighbours kids bahaaaaa
What?
The last 30 minutes is such a pain to watch… Also her complete lack of survival instinct is really off-putting, just laying there like a dead fish acceping her fate.
It’s safe to say that after having been beaten that badly, you’d have a hard time really putting your faculties in order and your instinct for survival would begin to dissipate with your consciousness.
Never been able to get through this because some fucking prick can’t manage to keep a camera still,you can’t see fuck all from the strobe light effects or just sheer poor lighting in other shots,make it impossible to watch or concentration,the only thing disturbing thing about it is how fucking boring & overrated it is,just the same as all Gaspar Noe films,can’t believe I kept checking into them all hoping to see what everyone says is genius,this guy blows,so do his shit movies
This comment made me laugh out loud, man. Noè intended for the camera work to be that way. It adds to the nauseating pace of the film.
love the R scene … just beautiful
It’s without a doubt one of the most intense scenes in Cinema. Beautiful? I suppose in a sadistic sort of way.
Great film, because it has great actors. Horror isn’t about just throwing gore around.
I love this movie and I am huge fan of Monica Bellucci!
Yea you love getting her fucked from behind you sick bastard
head scene was quite intense while stoned back in the day and the Barry Lyndon-esque denouement seems to sum everything in a nice neat nihilistic bow – enjoyed the erotic simulated abuse, but would have preferred Bellucci had agreed to do his porn idea instead…oh well, you take what you can get
Lol. This movie went far enough in the direction that it aimed to go. A bit gratuitously if I can be enough of a pretentious fuck-tard to suggest.
This movie is incredible and incredibly effed up!, I’ve seen so many films on this site (including Serbian Film and it’s pretty overrated) but this is something new the rape scene was brutal this entire film is a effed up art piece and despite it only having 3 effed up scenes, it stings like hell!.
“Time destroys everything”
Doing an analysis of this movie so I’m rewatching it being more careful to little details
For those who want to know, Pierre hits Le Ténia 23 TIMES in the face with the fire extinguisher
Pretty hardcore.
Did you happen to notice anything else about the film that caught your attention?
for fuck’s sake, this camera work made me fuckin nauseous
i wish i wer dat guy wit monica she deserve it anywa 4 dressin like dat stuped bich
I bet money you’re an incel that women find repellent and is short and ugly af
shush, stop using degenerate words you get from the internet. I know that you are unloved. Now go back to your wage slave life.
You’re not allowed 100 metres near children you faggot
Only good about this movie was the famous rape scene with Belluchii everything else was boring the story was a drag
This movie perfectly establishes the reality of male dominance and its perpetuance. Women deserve to be raped and beaten if they refuse a man’s advances for they are the lesser species built by the Lord Jesus Christ for entertainment and reproduction, nothing more. Also great fapping material. 10/10.
I’m sure your mother have fond memories of when she was raped by the retard you call daddy
stfu z generation degenerated shit
Shut up, woman!!!
u make no sense on this site so stfu u cuntfaced faggot
Who tf says cunt lmao what are u British? If so that itself is an insult
Go to school and suck my balls
sure, grow some first
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Okay so other than this being the most disgusting and bigoted thing that I have ever read, I find your mention of Jesus quite funny. You are out here backing up your (repulsive) position with religion. But anybody with even an ounce of knowledge about the Abrahamic religions knows that the female sex was created in the Garden of Eden during the “creation of the world”.
If you’re gonna be a piece of shit in a public forum, at least do it with the correct information. Especially if you’re quoting religious bullshit. In general though, maybe stop being a closed minded asshole who is openly making the world a more disgusting and unsafe place.
you come from a colonial empire stfu
So the natives should have fought harder.
aww are you insecure that someone is smarter than you. wicked cute
Larp as fuck
When was the last time you set foot outside your basement?
Certified ugly incel.
I bet you never touched a woman anyway you faggot
This has to be a troll.
No shit, and judging from the replies left by these marks above you, I’d say he did what he set out to do.
felt like i unlocked an achievement after getting through the infamous scene, but thought my brain was about to start bleeding out right after.
structure’s used brilliantly in this, did not expect much considering subsequent noé works weren’t that great for me but wow this one hits.
Real boring movie. The best part was when the dude smashed the snowflakes face in at the beginning. The rape scene was done good too but like I said. The movie was boring as hell.
A rated concept film with terminal stage parkinson’s cameraman. Those with severe motion sickness can skip this film you won’t last.
10/10 Loved the movie, especially the rape scene ????????????
yes it was beautiful. loved it too.
Good movie but insanely overrated in terms of “one of the most disturbing movies of all time”. Gimme a break. A guy gets his arm bent backwards and his face smashed in with a fire extinguisher and a woman is raped. You see women get raped on Lifetime, MTV, fuckin’ Freeform. I don’t wanna hear this mentioned on any “most disturbing list” ever again.
had to laugh at your nonchalant description of events in the film yet still maintaining your view – also a good pun – dont know whether it was intentional – probably not
This is my second time viewing this and damn this movie is more disturbing and fucked up then I remembered it 2 years ago. Brilliant Masterpiece.
Meh, too try hard, yes there were some nasty scenes but overall it was too dark and confusing. But, worth a look just for Monica Bellucci alone, she is delicious.
The only thing that’s try hard is your yearn to be edgy, fuckface.
Hey did you really kill Nancy? Don’t blame you to be fair,what a mouthy fuckin cunt
I watched this crazy stoned and I should’ve watched it in the correct chronological order coz I was getting super confused during the beginning. Watch the scenes in reverse. The r@p3 scene was pretty hot
You’re one sick fuck my dude
Not siding with the sick fuck, but we ARE on EffedUpMovies. What did you expect?
whattya mean watch in reverse? it’s irreversible! ????
That pun made my day. Thanks! 😀
A film about the utterly tragic hopelessness of toxic masculinity, the objectification of women, and the overarching patriarchy that no one asked for or needs to watch.
How many buzzwords can you fit into one sentence?
I got your “toxic masculinity” right here, sister *pats inner thigh*
And it rules you.
Oh stfu u indoctrinated smuck
stfu fatass
A comment about the utterly tragic hopelessness of pseudo-intellectualism, the objectification of posers, and the overarching pretentiousness that no one asked for.
A film about getting enough attention/money to make Enter the Void:
“Despite it being perhaps his most notable film, Noé revealed that “Irreversible is almost an accident.” After doing I Stand Alone, he wanted to do Enter the Void, but he needed more money before he pursued his costly passion project and wrote a treatment for Danger, the story that would eventually become Love.” from IndieWire
That ‘said’, it can be about whatever the fuck you want in your head
This was a bit difficult to sit through, not because of the rape but because it was so slow. If you’re looking for a very shocking and fucked up film this one doesn’t really fit that description, though it is still disturbing in quite a few ways. that said, I loved this, it’s definitely worth the watch.
Hey Honey.. looking forward to going out.. I Think I’ll wear my new nipple dress.
Im wondering if I Stand Alone and Irreversible are connected ? Im sorry if this has already been said, but the guy in the beginning that slept with his daughter is the same character from I Stand Alone. They are both by Gasper Noe, too.
Tangentially. I think the order is Carne, I stand alone then the first(Last) scene in Irreversible
I like reality of the film
God damn that fire extinguisher scene was hard to watch. I take that back the entire movie was hard to watch thats why I come here ?
The last 40 minutes is very hard to sit through, and not because its too intense, just because its stuff thats not needed for the story, yet the movie wouldnt work unless they had that stuff. It just makes for a bloated project.
Without it it would just be another gore movie.. The last part helps us understand and know the person who was killed and how much that actually was lost in the killing. Lol, not needed for the story.. Without it there would be no story worth telling! I know this is fupmovies, but that doesn’t mean it all has to be braindead gore without substance. It’s not a deep movie, if the meaning is lost on you I’m not sure there are many movies you will be able to folllow
To be honest this is one of the most boring films i have ever seen, the camera work is shit the whole film, the Dialogue was so fucking boring!!! if your watching this for the rape scene ( only watch that part ) the rest of the film is total garbage and a waste of a hour and 30 mins of my life i will never get back
Agreed, the movie is nowhere near as shocking as it tries to be. What they try to pull off as a plot twist is just… not working, and I say this as a woman
Gaspar doesn’t try to be shocking, ever. He’s not just some edgy director, he likes exposing the animalistic side of mankind (which I think he does well).
bullshit – this film was obviously designed to be assaultive to the senses (i.e., shocking) right up to the last shot, and why does have to be anything else?
No serious filmmaker shocks for the sake of being shocking. The result of that would inevitably be schlock. Forcing a long look at something so uncomfortable and unpleasant is not done to shock the audience here.
I’ve always thought of this film as a longform expansion of Kirkegaard’s assertion that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards.
no stupid opinion you are wrong big dumb dumb small brain i disagree and my opinion is right this movie is very nice you just wouldnt get it
Started watching, doubt I can finish it, the camerawork makes me uncomfortable and i’m only 10 minutes in, …
And that’s exactly what it’s made for
I agree the movie was bad it’s kind of famous because of the rape scene….
Pretty nice movie! Thx u!
Jesus Christ, this movie is hard to get through.
I love this movie and feel like it has a lot of originality.
Woman gets raped and her loved one takes revenge… there’s like a million movies of that. The only special feature of this film is that it was arranged in a reversed order. Re-arrange it, and it’s just another bland story.
The story isn’t all of the movie. As you said, it’s arranged backwards, wich already makes it different because it doesn’t trigger the same emotions at the same points. But what makes this movie special and what makes Gaspar Noé who he is is this gut wrenching direction. the vertigo, the confusion, the sickness… This movie is interesting for how it plays with both your emotions and senses
You don’t understand how incredible this film is, most movies I could give a shit less if someone gets raped! Rape scenes are usually added for shock value. But this film is a whole different vibe.
Tell me about it.
Nice and beautiful movie
This movie is brilliant!!!