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Reader comments on Irreversible
Subject: Re: homophobia?
Date: Dec 7, 2003
Of course, the rape (and the movie) has nothing to do with "reality". I think that it is not the film which is extremely homophobic, but that Noe behind the film has his specific point of view. Look at "I stand alone": the main character, the butcher, is a xenophobic and homophobic character. And now, the gay world is the sick and red one, the straight world is the bright and yellow one. This is so simple. Even sader is that no straight being on earth gets that notion, that this is the typical straight view, narrow minded. I mean, Joshua really said it: The man in the club says sth like "And now I fuck you in the ass" and the sick gays are standing around the place, yummi.
Nevertheless, I guess Noe is not homophobic, he simply knows how to sell a movie: he decided to shock the people out of their seats. That's it. I mean, when Pierre and Marcus are taken away from the dark club, all the people are shouting extreme gay violent things like "I hope the sodomize you to death" aso. Even the ones from the club, the ones at the door - does that make any sense, gays who hurt gays??? No, it's just about the provocation. (Hopefully)
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Re: homophobia?
> Exactly!.....I agree with you on this one.
> I didn't think it was a homophobic film.
> The scenes were horrific, but that's reality...
> Rape and murder are horrific.
In what sense is a homosexual man raping a woman "reality"? Does that ever, ever happen in real life?
I think you can look at the psychology of the filmmaker through his work and see that he made this film to indulge his own hostility toward gays and immigrants. He set his movie in an environment that symbolized the seedy underworld to him, full of depraved homosexual fetishists and inferior foreigners. That's a choice on the part of the filmmaker trying to be "edgy," not just some objective "reality."
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