Movie/Film Production Information Summary:

When a woman is raped by a stranger, her friend and ex-husband decide to take justice into their own hands

_Irreversible_ is without doubt a disturbing film-- not only because of the intensity of its violence, but also for what it seems to be saying about human nature.

"Time destroys all things" is the over-arching thesis to Gaspar Noe's film. We begin by seeing the characters' reactions to the events around them, then we see the events themselves. Continuing on, we get to observe the characters before the life-changing events, and finally the movie closes on a picture of the lives of the three main characters before tragedy struck. The film is filled with Stanley Kubrick references, and in more than one way it can be seen as a 99-minute visual dissertation on many of Kubrick's themes. The structure itself can be seen as an homage to Kubrick a la 2001, with _Irreversible_'s final seconds tracking backwards to a universe-creating Big Bang.

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Movie-genre: Crime, Passion, Erotic