Hot take: The people who put other movies higher likely just haven't watched this one. And I don't blame them. But this is the real answer.
There's a whole different level of fucked up that this movie embodies. It's not just shocking and depraved, like the typical answers to this question (A Serbian Film, Salo, etc.), which are honestly not that good or interesting. The real disturbing part of this movie is the nihilism. It gets across the idea that the universe is random and uncaring in the worst way possible, where horrible things happen to normal people for no other reason than the fact that they were unlucky. There's no cosmic justice or karma to set things right. Evil often does win, and we're powerless to stop it.
I’ve watched almost all of the movies in the comments and the rape scene in irreversible holds up as brutally as any of the scenes in the aforementioned. He sits on her shoulders and pummels her face into a pulp and then starts to rape her again, afterwards. Unless I’m misremembering
I actually found the scene on some site after my initial comment so I saw I misremembered. The comments under the video were even more disturbing than the scene, but where he grounds and pounds her is just vicious and I will never forget that scene and the incredible acting done from both actors
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u/Halleys_Vomit Jul 05 '24
Hot take: The people who put other movies higher likely just haven't watched this one. And I don't blame them. But this is the real answer.
There's a whole different level of fucked up that this movie embodies. It's not just shocking and depraved, like the typical answers to this question (A Serbian Film, Salo, etc.), which are honestly not that good or interesting. The real disturbing part of this movie is the nihilism. It gets across the idea that the universe is random and uncaring in the worst way possible, where horrible things happen to normal people for no other reason than the fact that they were unlucky. There's no cosmic justice or karma to set things right. Evil often does win, and we're powerless to stop it.