REVIEW: Gaspar Noé’s 'Irréversible' — the notoriously graphic, 12-scene rape-revenge tragedy from 2002 — still has the capacity, to say nothing of the will, to shock.
Still, you had to wonder how the movie might have played if its structure hadn’t been reversed — if its conclusion bent more toward the usual. We now, with Noé’s permission, have a chance to find out. A 2K restoration ofIrreversible: The Straight Cut
, the same movie, only backward. Rather, in the right order. Technically, this chronological cut already existed, albeit in an unofficial capacity. A janky unauthorized attempt was offered on the Korean home video release of the movie as a DVD extra . The director had already been asked, from the start, to just present the movie the normal way, perhaps because the mix of unique structural gimmick with perilous subject matter felt like too much of a risk.
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