Irreversible

Original Movie Poster, with the Warning lines.

They say in the European cinema you can find thousands of shocking films that would make Americans be scared to death, of course they say so many things lately, they forget reality bites and movies are just that, movies.

Most of the times we tend to forget the awful things we do, I guess that's healthy from a certain point of view but, some other times, most of the time is clearly unhealthy to pretend we're living in a happy world where everything is clock work, and our miserable lives are guaranteed to death.

Wrong! Gaspar Noé, like many other film makers wants us to open our eyes, to realize life & happiness are not guaranteed to all of us, in fact we don't know a shit about our future.

Irreversible, a product of 2002, made in France, featuring Monica Bellucci, one of the most beatiful women of our planet is a love story, hard to swallow for first timers, and even harder to swallow when the story is told backwards to let us know it was Irreversible, just like the movie title, a fatal destiny, a human nature cause & effect truth no one can escape from.

Alex partying.

Some Metaphore.

When this film was premiered I thought it was just another average sex movie by the looks of the promotional poster. Yes, I was wrong, and to redeem myself I found the DVD on a sale basket somewhere around 2003. 

After watching it at home, with my former girlfriend, now lovely wife, our first impression was "fuck my ass, We'll never watch it again" We were shocked by the realistic extreme violence depicted during the most intense moments of the film but, we were first timers, not anymore.

So ,the story has it that 3 very good friends, a couple and a former boyfriend of Bellucci's character Alex, they hang out together all the time, go to parties, chat on the subway about their past and well, just like any average group of friends they relate to each other in a very healthy way. Too good to be true...

3 Friends, unaware of the darkness around them.

Our pals go to a party, a typical display of a house party with hot girls everywhere, dozens of booze, thousands of drugs ,blowjobs and sex of all kinds. It is here where, after a little argument with his boyfriend, Alex decides to go home on her own. Once she's off She crosses the street using the underground peasant's tunnel and she meets her final destination: A motherfucking fag by the name of le Tenia, a son of a bitch who rapes Alex brutally. He even jokes about telling her how much he loves to torture bitches like her, though he's fond of men he makes the awful exception with Alex...

After our two friends find out about Alex, they set their minds into a single goal: Find the motherfucker and kill him good even if it's the last thing they do together.

If you're thinking the rape scene is the only brutal element you'll see here you're so wrong buddy.

Don't go in there Alex!

Le Tenia, a fucking piece of shit.

Our friends digging deep into the rotten areas of Paris.

The revenge elements, trough a neverending search through the dirtiest places in the world capital of love show us how deep some men go to get to their destination. Marcus & Pierre unleash the animal they carry in the deeps of their spirits to find the asshole who fucked up with their lives for good. Here is where the inevitable question rises: Could Alex have had a different outcome if Marcus & Pierre would have left the party with her? Well, buddy we'll never know. Rotten human beings start to show up like rain drops of the worst winter storm. Marcus & Pierre go from brothel to brothel asking for the whereabouts of the motherfucking fucking fuck Le Tenia. They talk to sluts, transvestites, fags, bondage freaks and shit of all sorts before they finally make their way to the extreme encounter they will have with such an ass.

Gaspar Noé knows how long our minds can bare watching such awful reality depicted on 8mm, so after the finish Le Tenia a la Mortal Kombat, the story abruptly changes and we find out about the love story Marcus and Alex had before the party, so the relieving moments of love, happiness, and tender lines are there to keep us from getting nuts.

Marcus & Alex were in love for life.

Monica Bellucci's awesome body.

A tender scene which real life lovers will understand.

Alex & Marcus lived happily, they enjoyed the simplest moments of life together, their love wasn't a mere sexual thing, it was way beyond that and here is where the most shocking element slaps our faces at the grand finale. After some doubts, Alex starts feeling strange, her period is not there, and she seems to feel extremely happy because she, with her female intuition feels she's pregnant. So, to make sure she buys the usual pregnancy test meds and certifies her feeling was right. That's the reason why Alex doesn't wanna party hard no more with the boys. Because she's now in another state of mind, concerned about the life she's breeding deep within, the life that will be shut brutally all of a sudden...

Reality bites.

The movie did very well at several alternative film festivals and earned itself some well deserved awards due to the smart directing by Gaspar Noé, who only had a 3 pages script when they started filming, so yeah, the actors had to improvise on the go. Overall an interesting film for those who really love movies, not for average movie goers, or for easy to scare people.

Here's the movie trailer: