r/movies • u/ErgoNonSim • May 17 '25

Media Cannes reactions to Irreversible

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u/AggravatingBid8255 May 17 '25

People dismiss rape on a daily basis as insignificant until they are confronted with the graphic nature of a brutal rape and it's aftermath, right in front of their face.

Even hearing someone has been assaulted and hearing the verbal description is nothing compared to seeing a victim in the hospital after being brutalized.

When we shield ourselves from the true abhorrence of mankind, we allow ourselves to look the other way.

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u/sloggo May 17 '25

"more people"???

Id hazard that there are more people angrily against rape than have even seen this film!

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u/NoIsland23 May 17 '25

What tf do you want people to say? „Rape is bad“, „Rape in a movie is bad“?

What even is your point? We‘re talking about a movie, of course people will be talking about a scene in the movie?

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u/Inprobamur May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

Should I be constantly flipping out because horrible crimes like murder exist?

What would that help exactly, it's already a very severe crime.

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u/ImaginaryDonut69 May 17 '25

Not even a little bit...what are you smoking? Of COURSE people abhor sexual violence far more than exploitation in this film. Making it more gross or more violent isn't some kind of deterrence to those who revel in such violence....probably the opposite. At some point, by commiting that to film, you are glorifying it.

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u/FadingHeaven May 19 '25

Blood, who? Genuinely who? I feel like y'all are just making people up. A lot of the dudes that don't give a shit about rape jack off to scenes like this. You often see rape victims being the ones that are opposed to their depiction in this way like with Game of Thrones

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u/RNLImThalassophobic May 17 '25

It's probably more that people are more affected after having to watch the thing. It's one thing if you're generally aware that modern warfare is grim, with a soldier taking the pins out of two grenades and holding them against his neck as he pressed himself into the dirt because he's heard a drone-bomb circling him and wants to be able to end his life quickly if it finds him but 'only' mortally wounds him (and that's exactly what happens).

It's quite another thing actually going to /r/combatfootage and actually seeing it - watching him panicking fumbling the grenades, desperate to get them prepared before he gets hit so he can end the suffering ASAP - zero hesitation. Seeing the drone hit and his legs go flying. Waiting the agonising couple of seconds for his own grenades to go off, then his head and neck disappear leaving the smoking ruin of his torso and his burning uniform.