Remy – Irreversible
Oh wow, lost you on this one, huh? Remy, how can a movie with a nine-minute rape scene cheer you up? That is sick!!
Hear me out and it will make sense.
Irreversible is, by all accounts, one of the hardest movies to watch, ever. For most people, when that movie ends, they want to hang themselves. To say it is nihilistic would be to sell short just how nihilistic it really is. A day in the life of one couple, torn asunder by tragedy after tragedy.
But my feeling is this: The movie ends, and you look around, and realize none of that stuff happened to you. It happened to THEM, in the film, but the whole point of the movie playing in reverse is to show you, in the sweetest of moments (how the film ends), we don’t even consider what kind of unforeseeable tragedies await around the corner. A movie like this reminds us of those true-to-life tragedies, and shows us, in one fleeting second, that we can stop to appreciate the moment we are in, long before, or long after the chaos has come. For that reason alone, Irreversible puts me in a good mood, because it reminds me just how bad life can be, showing me, in that moment, just how good life really is.
Wow, I just gave myself a bloody nose from over thinking.