passion for acting

TW: RAPE

hi guys!! omg it’s been a minute but I wanted to come on here and talk about something so unsettling. 

so I was on tiktok and I came across a video that listed a couple of movies that were so “horrifying” that they were banned (?) or something in certain countries/not allowed to be screened in cinemas (something along those lines) and one of them was the movie “irreversible”. 

it’s a french film that was released in 2002 and it’s a movie about how a woman gets raped and almost beaten to death and her boyfriend searches for the man in hopes of killing him. the movie is NOT in chronological order, it’s backwards. so it starts out at the end, where they show the boyfriend searching for the man, then the rape scene, then the girl and her boyfriend at a party, etc. it was a little confusing at first, but eventually I clocked the order. 

this movie...was VERY unsettling to say the least. i don’t think there are words to describe how horrified and uncomfortable I was. the rape scene felt like it lasted an hour..I had to skip it because of how graphic and violent it was. however, the acting was incredible; it felt like I was watching a live cam.

I was reading the reviews online after watching the movie, and one person described it as “cinematic torture” and honestly that’s exactly what it was. Though it was extremely difficult to watch, I think this movie is VERY important because it embodies the reality of most women.