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Question for the guys about the rape scene.

posted 9 years ago by TermlnatriX
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First I just want to say this has got to be the most disturbing and depressing film that I've seen - and I know I have yet to watch A Serbian Film which I hear is in the same league...

Now on to my query to the men out there... I'm sure anyone in their right mind would have a negative reaction to the rape scene in general, but how many of you actually shed tears? And I ask this in the most straightforward way. Because I couldn't really control my emotions anymore and it got to me on a deep level that I began crying. Gaspar Noe has done something truly important with portraying the scene in such a raw way. He cut through the BS and showed it for what it was.

I'll go even further, that this scene would surely make the cut for the montage in the "eye scene" in Kubrick's The Clockwork Orange. And SHOULD be shown to all misogynists out there as a form of a way to think about these actions.

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[–] Cinaet 9 years ago

It's a movie.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (23399706) 9 years ago

I am a white European, and I found the Irreversible rape scene to be incredibly hot and sexy (I'm talking about the actual anal rape, and not the beating she got afterward).

Other rape scenes that are very sexy to watch are from Straw Dogs, and Basic Instinct, and Three.

[–] chamohlamb 8 years ago

You like it more when the woman cries and begs you to stop?

[–] kakstin-270-41573 8 years ago

I practically had to keep my eyes pried open, "Clockwork Orange" style, to get through the whole scene. As repulsive as the extended gang rape in "I Spit on Your Grave" (original) might be, it honestly didn't have *quite* the same impact (IMO). BTW I rated both movies an 8 (very good/excellent) in part for their sheer power to horrify - not too often, for better or worse, does such visceral cinema come along. "Eraserhead" also unnerves me to the point of near-queasiness, but of course for entirely different reasons.

P.S. Exactly WTF do some commenters see in that scene that's "sexy" or "arousing"? I honestly want to know, because I find this sort of stuff about as erotic as an Andy Rooney monologue...