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Doesn't quite stand up
After viewing Gaspar Noe's intriguing "Irreversible", I gave this previous work a try, and came away disappointed. <
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>The story follows a downcast misfit, embittered by a series of misfortunes, as he strolls through what's left of his garbage heap of a life---and I mean stroll. We follow along from street to street listening to the hate-filled ramblings of his slowly deteriorating mind. <
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>There are a few moments of graphic violence that seem deliberately placed in an attempt to give this film a notoriety that the story was incapable of achieving on its own. <
>It's a "Taxi Driver" wannabe, but falls far short. It has the basics of a good film, but needed much more work. <
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>Noe fares much better with "Irreversible". I recommend it, although it may not be for everyone. While graphically violent itself, the difference lies in the quality of the narrative. As the title implies, it's told in reverse. The story moves backwards in segments from violent ending events, adding revealing layers of the story until we arrive at a quiet beginning, and a final disclosure. <
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>If cutting edge is what you're looking for, I would also highly recommend "Man Bites Dog", a 1993 Belgian film that takes black comedy to a new level. It's dark, violent, and uproarious at the same time. <
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Are you talking to me ?
I have to give this movie a 5 star rating. It's one of the most disgusting, twisted, putrid i have ever seen. It definitely makes the viewer uncomfortable and un-easy while anticipating what this unstable, time bomb butcher is gonna go off on since that little devil on his shoulder keeps him on the negative path of everything and anything he can think of. <
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>Goes from place to place dealing with whatever situation he is in at that moment and his mind is constantly spinning and dropping a few screws here and a couple of nuts and bolts over there because of all the hatred and envy and every other negative emotion that exists in him and all the negatively bad advice he keeps giving to himself. <
>Disturbing --- Violent --- Plain 'ol scary this guy is <
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>I would hate to come face to face with this man. I don't even want to be in the same hemisfere he's in. <
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>Major downer. <
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>Buuuuuuut...that's what the movie is supposed to do. And it does. <
>Kind of like Falling Down meets Taxi Driver but on an extremely distubing level. Douglas & Deniro are sane wussies next to this fruit cake. <
>Shocking --- Depressing --- Sick <
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>You know, this guy is so rediculously negative i burst out laughing a few times from his idiotic way of thinkig. I loved this terrible movie for bringing out all these emotions and feelings which proves it to be a powerful movie. I compare it to the rollercoster riders that rate the ride on how fast it made them puke; on the first time around - EXELENT 10/10, second time around - GOOD 8/10, third time around - POOR 5/10, fourth time around - Pathetic 1/10, Don't puke at all - YOU CALL THIS A ROLLERCOASTER! <
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>If you are depressed or suffer from depression and you wanna add on to that, this is the movie for you. <
>Two thumbs up for Gaspar Noe. <
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the butcher; alone against all
The movie about the butcher who has lost it all is an impressive venture into an eloquent narrative about despair, and most of all, loneliness. In a way, the topic can be considered immature, a little too much of the teenage in anguish sort of dialogue, but it is just so well conceived in regards to Noé's particular cinematic vision that it becomes a powerful tale of one man's abandonment to his pathologies and to the inevitable decay of society. <
> There is something about Gaspar Noé's films -perhaps a certain quality of grotesquery and exaggerated reality, or his fixation with Beethoven- that somehow manages to inflict pain into the viewer. When you see the color in the film, that sort of yellowish or reddish accent, that sickly overtone in embellished color, you are being set up visually for the entrapment of narrative, plot and ideas. Then add to that, a story of an undeniable pathetic element, and you are in for an experience, no matter what you end up thinking of the film. <
> If you have already seen his following film, `Irreversible', you might know what to expect from Noé. When I first got a hold of this film, I had a very ambiguous feeling, one that oscillated from unease to curiosity, and this because of having watched Irreversible. The film does deliver a fair amount of extremely well crafted shock value, just to jolt your senses, in way, to create a final paroxysm for the tension that the butcher's monologue of despair has been creating through out the film. The end is hard to watch but it doesn't come off as unnecessary violence. It is more of a whirlwind of the extreme despair of the butcher. Irreversible ends up as more of a shocker because the rape scene is just so long and perverse. <
> But more than anything, shocks aside, the story presents us with a very interesting look of how a man can let himself go and just give in to his altered state of mind. This is exemplified beautifully in the relation between the butcher and his daughter. As with irreversible, Noé works here with a fairly simple story, and a very simple axiom. In this case, for example, it is an examination of morality and man as a measure for it. When a man is distraught is all society to blame, or is it time for this man to abandon society by any means? <
> If you are looking for a disturbing movie with eloquent dialogue, in this case a monologue, and that is a well made film, this is one of them. This film may be criticized more than other disturbing films since it is so well made and this causes it to be more intrusive; it has the elements of a reality somewhat possible in the lives of everyone, as was irreversible. It doesn't create the fear that irreversible creates, or the feeling of lost safety; it creates something different, yet on the same level as both the fear and insecurity in irreversible. It is of course to be viewed by very different standards of those used to watch a disturbing film by Ingmar Bergman, or the way you view a Tarkovsky or a Bresson or a Lynch or a Miike film. The point is, Noé definitely has a unique cinematic voice, and although it is a voice in development, it is a very powerful one and he needs no comparison to other filmmakers. As does Irreversible, the film ends with a passage of classical music that accentuates the bittersweetness of the finale. Another very good reason to watch this film, is the choice of actors used to play the characters in the film. The vision of the butcher seems to correspond to the world since it is the case that the people who inhabit it show that same decay in their expressions. <
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