I was watching Irreversible. I saw a clip of the film several years ago and figured that I first needed to prepare myself emotionally before watching the whole thing. Took me years. Now that I feel like I have a smudge of enlightenment, I watched it holding my breath.
Can I just say that Gaspar Noe never fails to agitate and disturb me? The flow was genius (screenplay and editing-wise). The cinematography was very appropriate. The actors, well, they made me cringe and shrivel inside. Disturbingly beautiful. Even the OBB and CBB*! I think those are the best parts actually. And what's cooler is that the film starts with the end of Noe's other film I Stand Alone which is one of my favorites.
And because I don't like watching stuff that people shove into my face, I'll probably watch 500 Days of Summer after a year or two. Or 500 days.
* opening and closing billboards
yepp.
ReplyDeletebut to say "disturbingly beautiful"
is like saying beautiful disaster which is like saying beautiful nightmare, which is soooo
over na sa contrast effect! so
sabihin na lang natin... benta. haha
however, if u would take it from kitts and how SUmmer moved her by reminding her of me..
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA gusto mo un? hahaha
ilove kitts!
so watch it na us! okey?
then when people ask us if weve seen it, we'll pretend we havent,
ask them what they think, then talk about it once theyre gone....
u like that? hahaha
I like being disturbed so I guess for me it's not a contrast effect thing.
ReplyDeleteSige. Papanoorin ko tapos kunwari wala akong clue. Na hindi ko alam na Summer ang pangalan ng character ni Zooey at na hindi masaklap ang ending.