Word: mementos
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...recent screening of the film at the Harvard Film Archive, over fifty percent of the audience quietly left the theatre near the half-way mark, during a 10-minute rape sequence that forms the core of the film. Told in a reverse narrative a la Memento, Irreversible follows Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and his friend Pierre (Albert Dupontel) as they search a bizarrely hostile gay club for the man who raped Marcus’s girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci). After the incredible revenge is taken, Noe backs up to depict the rape, and the final sequence of the film...
Unlike the gimmicky Memento, Noe uses the reverse narrative technique for thematic purposes in place of its common use as a flashy glitch in convention. The film’s assertion that “time destroys everything” is utilized visually in Noe’s dazzling transitional phrases. He finds a relationship between the camera’s motion and the darkened landscape the film inhabits to establish an almost ethereal sense of discontinuity in the film’s temporal projection of its characters. The intense violence of the first half of the film is thus...
Three actors have already played Batman in the movies. With Insomnia director Chris Nolan taking on the franchise, will Guy Pearce, star of Nolan's Memento, take the cape...
...principle of overriding importance, and balance reform, development and stability." Chinese might snicker at home, but they can't show their outrage or frustration in public. So the Party gets away with it?to the chagrin of the Democracy Wall dissident. At home, he still has a memento of that wall: a single brick he saved before the last bit was torn down in 1994. "People seem indifferent to politics," he says, "but if you look deeper, what they really are is scared. Some day, people will talk back at the Party again." But not, it seems, at this congress...
...sure looks glad to see me—there’s a billboard-wide grin on her face, and she’s practically barreling into my arms. I start to smile back blankly and my mind races like Guy Pearce’s in Memento. Do I KNOW this person? Think! Think! Who IS this...