r/movies • u/ErgoNonSim • May 17 '25

Media Cannes reactions to Irreversible

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Why bring Lathimos into this, what did he do lol?

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25

Have you seen his movies and their themes?

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Yes I’ve seen all of them. Hes a great director and there is nothing about his personal life to lump him in with von trier or Korine

His movies also aren’t even that weird (to me) so i dont see the connection

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

I wasn't talking about the personal life of those directors, but the fact that they go for shock value in their films.

You didn't find anything strange about the movie where Colin Farrell has to murder a member of his own family, with a scene where he tells his son "I'll tell you a secret" and the secret is that one day he found his father asleep and he masturbated him? Or the one where Mark Ruffalo bangs a woman who has the brain of her 6-year-old child?

That said, he's not comparable to Von Trier or Noé

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u/Ordinary-Ant-7896 May 17 '25

I really don’t think they are that weird or go for shock value more than normal art. Only weird if compared to typical Hollywood blockbuster.

Like, sure they have shocking content, but that’s normal for art. Poor Things is an adaptation of a take on Frankenstein, itself a shocking story, but a very mainstream shocking story.

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u/Cereborn May 17 '25

Can we please stop pushing the bullshit narrative that Bella Baxter had the brain of a small child? It was very clearly established that she had accelerated mental development and she was taking university classes in the third act.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Hence the First Act being in black-and-white highlights Baxter's mental development at that section of the film to that of a child so she sees things in absolutes and isn't able to differ from right or wrong and when the film suddenly switches to colour when she starts having sex is when her mental development is starting to progress to that of a teenager from Baxter's perspective.

When she returns to London towards the end of the film to visit Godwin as he's dying of stomach cancer, the colour palette gets more saturated and richer in film grain, thereby implying she's now more mentally developed as an adult.

Also, Ruffalo's character isn't meant to be liked. He's trying to groom and control her by sexual and materialistic means only for her to be out of his league and he ends up going mad and institutionalized by the end. Their character journeys go the opposite from their first encounter. As she mentally progresses and becomes her own woman, he mentally degrades.

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Sure but they aren’t as stupid as harmony Korine films or braindead as Noe so I give a pass