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Actors: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Irreversible
Irreversible is about the revenge a man needs to take for the brutal rape of his girlfriend.
--Mary Savvidou, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Irreversible
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%



Time/Era of Movie: - present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story? Yes
Taboo Sex Story? Yes
Crime story: - vigilante hunting down criminal(s)
Kind of story: - rape (yech!)

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric - wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Events of movie makes character more... - aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type - ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - French

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
Misc setting - moving train - sewers/subways - building

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel... - frustrated
How many deaths in film? - 1
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - impregnation/reproduction - seeing breasts - seeing nude female butt - seeing nude male butt - seeing full frontal--women - seeing full frontal--men
How much use of techno gadgets? - 1 (None)
Kind of violence: - hand to hand - knives
Unusual forms of death - fright - rough sex - crushed - blunt clubbing (like seals)
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - French
Subtitles? - Yes
Any profanity? - A lot of foul language
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