Irreversible The Beginning

[mjh34mjh34]

One of my fave films ever

[CONJAMDAV]

The flashing is the camera slowly getting closer to the sprinkler

[Glimax]

Gaspar Noe makes ART.

[denisonM]

@Glimax no Gaspar tries to hard. He's a pretentious prick.

[COBRARocky]

@denisonM Cool opinion bro

[aaaaaaaaaajgvgjyc]

This film in inherently moral since it depicts the effects of violence before showing us the causes. I think the last few scenes and this one in particular are meant to show how unsuspecting and innocent the characters are and how easily they can dissolve into violent people.

And while disorientating, seizure-inducing and nauseating some of the camerawork and sound is, it's sheer genius, and makes us as disorientated as the characters.

[daft9punk]

TIME DESTROYS EVERYTHING.

[youllgrowonme]

this movie should come with an X rating

[stefanoisthebest]

some shocking scenes in that movie...

[juangmb]

Esta pelicula es una obra maestra del cine!!!

[vickyhancock1]

the flashing at the end is first cloudy and it sounds like theres a steam engine in the backgroud and it sounds quite tranquil like a worldly ideal. then the image goes grainy and flecky and the sound is of an old film projector like an old cinema reel of something that had happened in the past and was now coming to an end. then the image turns chaotic and the sound is of machine gun fire representing all the worldly tragedies and then the images flashes to represent us ignoring it hypnotised.

[vickyhancock1]

i think that the spinning at the circle with the sprinkler represent circles within circles like infinity and things ever repeating. and the children running in the circle represent us running care free through the chaos of time and we are unaware of the dangers. and things like the events in the movie do happen all the time just people choose to ignore it, like the man in the tunnel who walks away when the girl gets raped.

[puppibanana]

I love this part. What's the name of the song?

[TheMcReviewer]

watch this while you are high.....oh my god

[ISeeSickPpl]

Id simply say it's very disturbing and therefore accentuates the message or feeling u got from the film and leaves u with a big WTF as in my case - the whole Film, just fucked my mind.. ty Gaspar Noé ;D

[j3parrots]

obvious statement but Beethoven truley was a genious

[haleth]

Los Spoilers de los comentarios sobran un poco no???

[surfin4]

nice post

[surfin4]

time destroys everything.......amazing film

[PaintedNails1]

This is my favorite scene from any movie, ever. Period. It is just so...beautiful and breathtaking...

[drumbum16]

Anyone have any theories on why they decided to include the flashing at the end? It has always puzzled me.

[ignasidiz]

nausea, just like the beginning

[CerpinTaxt1983]

my favorite movie of all time. Irreversible left me with a distrurbing feeling that will be with me till the day i die.

[thewolfPrince]

I think the ending quote Time destroys everything in English has something to do with it and possibly because that what blank film does during the beginning of a film if not edited out.

[gosuckafuck]

the universe. the big bang. the beginnig of everything, and its end.

[Zunesrthebest]

I think it was because Gasper wanted to create the feeling of uneasiness again. To make it feel like something drastic was about to happen.......again

[Zunesrthebest]

Just to create that feeling of uneasiness again knowing that they're unaware of their fates

[civilsavage]

life is like cinema, everything flickers past us, we never really understand what we see and maybe that's just the way it's supposed to be? *shrug* there are maaaany ways to interpret noe's work! i think that's what resonates most with people that enjoy his work, myself included. not as pessimistic as it would seem but realistic and in today's social climate, it's foolish and almost ignorant to be unrealistic! :)

[s1eve]

Noe is a fan of avant garde artist Paul Sharits who frequently uses flash frames in his works and I guess Noe has decided to  do the same in a number of his films.

[dikydua]

end of 8mm film roll

[fierfly25]

well i haven't seen this movie yet. But knowing that the movie is shot backwards maybe the director was using the flashing to indicate that you the viewer are going back in time

[danthemango]

@drumbum16 I have always thought that it connects it to the beginning, but the directors have stated it was supposed to give the viewer an uneasy feeling.

[meetbollz]

I have never felt such a powerful feeling of dread, anger, and hatred watching a film. Truly amazing film, that I will only ever need to watch once!!!!!

[technicallyabsurd]

After seeing this clip, my inner ear was filled with blood for the rest of the day.

[technicallyabsurd]

That made my ears hurt for some reason. I'm kind of nauseated.  I haven't seen the movie before, but I've heard it does a good job of being as unpleasant as possible.

[MsHarpo5]

The " ending " contains segments of the the Andromeda nebula image taken from Hubble- the " flashing " one sees at the very last second of the film . Time , according to Einstein ,is indeed reversible , but not ones actions within it...

[DONPRONK]

kinda weird but great movie!

[dcpigpen]

dizzy...... this movie blew me away, especially the first like 20 minutes. bad date movie though. :)

[hacaha]

Worst film i have seen in a verrrrry long time

[proudjester]

The movie, to me, seemed to be from the perspective of the spirit of the unborn child. The ending seemed to be a big indicator. Don't ask me why, it just feels like it to me for some reason.

[civilsavage]

i like that theory! definitely, we are beings composed of something beyond the confines of earthly existence, art even, beyond perception and understood only in terms of pure existence... perhaps, pure light?

[Zunesrthebest]

I agree it's like something or someone is watching them through the whole film

[DisturbingDesires]

I just made a movie summary for this movie. . .check it out and see if this movie is for you

[aramivar]

adore esta pelicula una de las mas impactantes que he visto en mi vida es hoy y no la olvido esta escena me dejo sin aliento creo q es un sueño y el final es cuando ella descubre que esta embarazada que no seria el final si no mas bien el inicio la musica que oimos es un movimiento de la quinta sinfonia de bethoven

[n64321]

@aramivar estas equivocado. Es de la SÉPTIMA. Es el segundo movimiento.

[juangmb]

@aramivar es cierto, pero nunca se supo si estuvo embarazada, solo gestos corporales y emociones que ella expreso, lo cual uno cree que puede ser que si, pero te deja la duda..

[dien45]

cual es el nombre de la musica de fondo ?

[almart3069]

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto LUDWING VAN BEETHOVEN

[CeramicVideo]

Oh My god, a scene has never made me feel so odd

I've had vertigo, been captured by by colour but im nausious

[Jadabh3]

Don't watch the movie ... this is the nicest part in it

[fbfiveohv3]

this movie kicked my ass.

[mpanda2124]

The end of this clip - the flashing between skies,

was probably the scariest moment of my life

and i've seen a dead body

wow. :/

[JuliendAnce]

the film raconte comment on devient homo

[MassNssen]

Alors c'était similaire a votre histoire.

[tomes55moon]

now thats fu***ng cinema!

[666NO666]

uhh... dizzy

[leafloev]

Aaaargh epileptic seizure!!

[antsman88]

should come with an epilepsy warning

[PJelloso]

that's a good idea

[RYNO2511]

the movie has one at the beginning (end)

[Luckool]

ok this movie is ultra violent. but hey, so much emotion... one of the french movies i'm the most proud of.

[Usemefc]

sam here ultr violent for sure

[slimboyjordan]

Mate it is so violent, but necessarily, it is literally one of the best films I have ever seen. If you liked that you might also like La Haine.

[PJelloso]

luv la haine, vincent cassel is a bad ass actor. you gotsta watch dobermann, it's not as artful as irreversible but it's a dope movie aswell

[sonicadv27]

can anyone explain this scene to me? i got the meaning of the entire film, but this particular scene.... i don't get it, it's doesn't quite fit the rest of the storyline, becos if the story is told backwards, this was suppose to be the beggining of the film, and in none of the previous scenes (later in timeline) we see Alex pregnant...

apart from that, i loved this touch of class: a spininng "heaven" acompanied by a lovely Beethoven symphony... epic...

[Luckool]

the beginning in the dark, red, full of males and violence nightclub = the gaspar noe vision of hell (he's not against gay people, he just wants to prove his point that a real hell has no women in)

luxembourg parc in paris is quite a heaven if you go there someday. in this scene gaspar noé show what he thinks is heaven : women, water, children.

if u want some more details, just ask :)

[sudsy123]

I'm kind of unsure about it too, but i'll try to explain it as best my interpretation. The final scene I believe is to be the emotional climax, as in the previous scenes we see Alex and Marcus flesh out as actual human beings (as opposed to the rape victim and the pissed off french guy as we first meet them). As a finale we see Alex in a quiet dreamlike moment of normalcy, we see a simple innocence in her that kills as as we see what later happened. It becomes a heartbreaking climax

[xjaja1975]

I think point is "Time destroys everything," Gay in beginning says it and it also written to end of film.

I think that mean begin is end or end is begin.

Its do quite fit the rest of the storyline, when you think all this movie is between phrase "Time destroys everything". So story is Endles. There is not opening or beginning. There is just lot stories, lot dreams. But dreams usually turns to wrong way. Like Alex did.

[technovita]

The title of the vid is a bid missleading, because that's the end. The end of the movie and of the story! This is the only scene, that doesn't fit in the chronological sequence! The beginning of the story, is the scene where Alex makes the pregnancy test.

[JaeEffingKae]

Are you sure about that? It seems to me that this scene fits with the chronological order of it all. Earlier in the film, Alex talks about "reading an amazing book" about time and the future. In this scene, she is reading a book titled "Time".

[papasitoman]

Read Roger Ebert;s review. It is really well done and he explains this scene.

[Jadabh3]

I read Ebert's review and it's pretty good (except the bullshit about Alex's dress the complete fuck-tard). I agree with the film being moral. The final scene does as Ebert says place the violence in context and acts and thus negates the notion of violent pornography. That is it's moral placement. It also has a structural use simple as the moment the story begins. As someone mentioned Alex later (earlier) mentions a book she is reading about Time. The way the the scene then transcends into

[Jadabh3]

that visual maelstrom essentially is making two points. The first is that it's a homage to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the stargate sequence. That link also creates the thematic link with that film about the extremes of human potential - in 2001 that is about perception, the extremes of thought yada yada in Irreversable that is about violence and cruelty. The second point is that one of the themes of the film is that "Time destroys all things" and thus it is presented in this way

[Jadabh3]

to slip into (or out) the story in a visual sense. It is trying to illustrate that the movie is no solid narrative, it is not about objective observation and that life is constant and changing in innumerable versions. The best way to understand this I think is the opening scene where the two men are talking in the room. I always found that bizarre and completely unnecessary until I realised that in the same way the last scene slips out of the story that that was the beginning of a new one. Rob x

[pbchrist]

@Jadabh3

phillipe nohan starred in i stand alone

[Lilysmile93]

amazing movie.

i saw it yesterday, and i was shivered with cold during this scene...

[jamp94]

Amazing. In the very end it feels like your falling and when you hit the ground everything goes black. Or atleast that's what I felt.

[revolverproducciones]

Lejos la mejor toma de la pelicula y el tema... impecable, el mejor.

[chairman79]

This movie gave me nightmares...

[PurpleKOGA]

Time Destroys Everything.

[CerpinTaxt1983]

cant wait for Noe' next film out this summer Enter The Void. should be the greatest film ever.

[nevardc2710]

love it

[ECDCXL]

what the fuck is it that's in between the strobes?

[RYNO2511]

i think it's space

[Jadabh3]

something that resembles stars. 2001 reference

[cantstaythesame]

What does everyone think the very last part is: a closeup of the sprinkler? Just visual effects? It certainly is visceral.

[asomers]

anyone know what this song is?

[Jadabh3]

Beethoven´s 2nd movement of Symphony no 7

[Neonman78]

My God, I love this film. One of my favourites!

[Jadabh3]

Why?

[ytre9]

Fantastic! I have no words...

[TheRings7]

It's precisely the ending and this final scene what makes the movie so extremely dramatic and makes you pull your hair asking why this and why that in anger and frustration, seeing how things were and how they turned out in just one damn night.

[darksmnv]

can anyone tell me which Beethoven symphony is this one.?

[oxbrowse]

the last part is not for epileptics!

[Joelhimself]

watch this on k

[01738083370]

monica bellucci looks so beautiful in that movie

[juanwernicke]

Kubrick is brilliant! And this is not Kubrick!

[Jadabh3]

Both true. This is Noe. Are you trying to say you don't like the film?

[FullFrontalCrudity]

drawing any parallels to kubrick? extreme ultra-violence? sickening camera angles? the 2001 poster of the space fetus? the score? the pulsing light flashes and audio? is Gaspar fucking with us? certainly so... but on what level?

[niuludilu]

kubrick made a bunch of very different movies, so i could draw parallels with him for every single movie ever made. in this film noe told one story on one specific way with specific point, and he did a great job! it would be very unfair to point accuse someone just because it reminded you of something else

[jackhackett80]

id compare him more to sam peckinpah

[KlausAUsdemosten]

youre a fucking moron i'd like 2 kill you with a meat chopper

[tonasse]

Gaspar Noé is a big Stanley Kubrick fan. There is a poster for 2001 on the wall at the end of Irreversible.

[Jadabh3]

I'd say he defiantly is, for a few reasons making a parallel to 2001 yes

[ankiankiankiankianki]

@Jadabh3 : yes because he loves this movie

[vivipara]

.....

[Picapacapopo]

I just got a new monitor, and I thought I'd go ahead and play this scene because the end of it tests the monitor, and I gotta say, that it feels like pins are being stuck into the center of my pupils. Its so bright, and the response time is awesome. If you play this the way it's meant to be played, that last flashing part HURTS.

[moshshock]

Watching this last scene from my 50 inch screen at midnight was quite an experience

I felt like i was going inside the tv.

[onceuponatimeinhere]

Godlike.

[any0ne]

Breathtaking.

[wswass]

this movie is one of my favorite and this special scene is crazy when i watch it i think of heaven and not the heaven that i should go to noo the one that is in between earth and the real heaven ,,,ammm i would like to go there looool,,,but great movie great scene also malena is great too

[matimore]

Gaspar Noe is BRILLIANT

[MARIACONDINHO]

great

[thecrusader2007]

one of the most intensive movies i've ever experienced (i'm not talking about the violent scenes, it's the essence of this masterpiece, that makes it unique).

[cineasta71]

"Le temps detruit tout" lovely phrase..from an exceptional artist

[mearte]

I admire it.

Good ending.

Almost... perfect.

Watch my videos.

[osrion]

whenever i watch this film..i feel like..i m in the trash container..full of disgusting trash..then somebody stick a knife into my belly..i see blood pouring down from my body..and i see the trash around me..

but at the end..everything just becomes clean and pure..feeling depressed and void at the same time..

[IronMindedGods]

wtf? LOL

[turuleco]

simply AMAZING. Every time I see this scene I get the chills.

[negretediego]

quien la musica o la  pelicula

[lifedivinus]

the story was exquisite, but the way it was shot to make it seem like it's a never ending scene, its far too stressful for my eyes, That I wish could have been done differently, but the playing backwords was illustrious, but the con of that was that when you see the pain all the charcters goes through you feel upon them no pity because you don't get the character development until later in the film

but i still give it a two thumbs up!

[michal3224]

I believe that at the end that's Mahler's 9th.

[bertdockx]

100% beethoven

[PJelloso]

yup I posted the symphony, look at the first comments

[bathorycomplex]

I am absolutely in love with this film. I have watched it four times already and it arrived at my house two days ago.

[Jadabh3]

Four times in two days.... ballsy mother-fucker. It's one of my favourite films but I know I won't watch it again for years

[tempsdetruittout]

Beautiful ending.

[tangerinemisfit]

I feel sick.

Too...much...spinning!

[pauloscj1977]

it's spinning counter clock wise... it means everything is going back to the begin, as all in the movie, and the final 10 secods they show universe the begin of everything. it's poetic from begin til the end.. and viceversa ;)

[PJelloso]

you'r damn right man !

[elementalfiend]

Actually.. that would be clockwise my friend.

[chairman79]

Yes but I read about a theorie that this scene was actually really at the end and that Monica Belucci looked pregnant, so she didn't lose the baby...

[Jadabh3]

If you don't accept time as a chronological sequence and that moments are solid in that time then yes. But then "Time destroys everything" doesn't it?

[rocketqueen18]

isn't anyone uploading the movie?

[SingHouse]

don't download it. Buy it. The photography is beautiful, it's exceptional and you just won't get the full quality of it unless you have the dvd quality.

[PJelloso]

buy it it's worth it, the movie is pretty harsh

[dieguin81]

Las Camaras de la peli se llevan todos los meritos... junto con las tetas de belucci

[mearte]

Adoro este final. Es lo mejor de la película. Entonces fué a favoritos de una.

[mearte]

Adoro este final. Es lo mejor de la película. Entonces fué a favoritos de una.

[chacallot]

Exact part of the dvd I was trying to capture, THX A LOT!

[any0ne]

Thanks for uploading.

This scene is just stunning, like the movie

[PumpkynHead]

dandelion head

[ExxxquisiteCorpse]

This is my favourite scene in the movie, as well as one of my favourite Beethoven symphonies.

[kevayreski]

best end to a film of all time. one of the best film scenes ever. after such a bleak, depressing film. monica belucci looking too good for words, with the calm fantastic music of beethoven playing.

[any0ne]

I totally agree

[effigy23]

Stunning ending.

[Islander255]

which beethoven song is this? I love it. I love this movie.

[PJelloso]

it's Beethoven - Excerpt From Symphony No. 7 In A Major Op. 92. I havent found it on the internet, only a site where u can listen to it

[believeinkubrick]

this guy is a fucking god no doubt! n he is pretty fuckn real to be liked, this is why he is not so well accepted by the authorities! keep up the good work cant waiting for enter the void!

!!!gaspar noe!!!

[neverpickitup]

I think maybe this is the best movie secuence ever.