Review of Irreversible (2002) by Vince K — 01 Mar 2010

I've heard people talking about the AMAZING RAPE SCENE in this movie for so many years; I finally had to see it. I love rape scenes. There's nothing funnier. Whether it's "SQUEAL LIKE A PIG, BOY" from Deliverance or the RIDICULOUSLY 30-minute long rape/gang-bang/orgy from I Spit on Your Grave, it's always going to be a good time.

They should just do a reality show based on this. Call it "The Amazing Rape", and have teams rape their way across the world. Rape everyone in Sweden, France, and Chile (even though they're all dead), for cash and prizes! So, I was looking forward to some good rape.

I was totally ready to break out the tissues (for obvious reasons). Instead, Irreversible opens with this guy on a VERY LONG search through a dirty gay sex club. As he searches basically every dark corner of the place, you see ALL of what is going on in there.

Gay anal sex, blowjobs, whipping, fisting, felching, water showers, men beating off everywhere. YES they show you everything. I didn't know what the fuck was going on and was pretty sure I was watching the wrong movie.

He's angrily searching for some guy named Tian, and when he finds him the guy breaks his arm and tries to rape him. His friend attacks the guy, saving him, and smashes the dude's head in with a fire extinguisher.

Right in the face, over 30 times. The movie is shockingly realistic. It's not until the next scene when I realize the movie is playing backwards by scene (which explains the 5-minute long opening credit sequence I was getting so pissed off about).

Which makes it nothing like Memento. Going backwards, you find out this guy (Marcus), is all pissed off because his girlfriend was raped real har-har-hard and he's seeking revenge. Eventually you get to the rape scene.

It's the most fucked-up, sickest thing I've ever seen in my life. This WAS NOT funny at all. Yeah, this gay pimp pounds Monica Belluci in the ass for about 10 minutes, while doing poppers, and she screams her fucking head off the whole time while she bleeds all over him.

I like sick and disturbing, I usually get a kick out of it. It never is too realistic in movies so I just get a big laugh out of it because it's too hard to take seriously. This I took seriously. It was too realistic.

Especially when he cums and he's not done with her yet. He kicks her repeatedly in the face, punches her in the face, then takes her by the back of the head and bashes her face into the pavement again and again.

Blood flying everywhere. Well, now that I've said all that, Irreversible was a very interesting take on filmmaking. It was boring and confusing at times, but not nearly as much as Memento was. And if I've learned anything from Irreversible, it's that France is a sick place and everyone there should be raped to death.