As far as Noé’s work, I’ve only seen Enter The Void, but I’ve heard a bit about Irreversible… I dunno if I want to see it. Can’t deal with “brutal rape”/rape-revenge plotlines. Enter The Void blew my mind with beauty and interesting writing, though I found it to be a little more tedious than I was in the mood for. Park Chan-wook’s work is similar to Enter The Void, to me, when it comes to romanticizing trauma. I like his over-the-top melodrama, though, for some reason. It doesn’t try to “expose” aspects of “reality” or try to be “gritty” - it’s flashy and completely fantastical. I’m still trying to work through whether or not I find his films misogynistic or fetishizing violence towards women. On one hand, we have a bulk of his films which feature conniving or downright evil mothers and shrewish, two-faced young women as plot devices, and on the other hand we have Lady Vengeance (which contains roughly the same sorts of vile women, but with a female as the protagonist). Lady Vengeance was cathartic for me and made me cry. I’ll probably have to watch the movies again to refresh my memory, though. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fell a little flat for me, too, especially the ending. I’m curious about Fincher’s remake, though the accents and Mara’s styling seem a bit over-the-top.

As far as Noé’s work, I’ve only seen Enter The Void, but I’ve heard a bit about Irreversible… I dunno if I want to see it. Can’t deal with “brutal rape”/rape-revenge plotlines. Enter The Void blew my mind with beauty and interesting writing, though I found it to be a little more tedious than I was in the mood for.

Park Chan-wook’s work is similar to Enter The Void, to me, when it comes to romanticizing trauma. I like his over-the-top melodrama, though, for some reason. It doesn’t try to “expose” aspects of “reality” or try to be “gritty” - it’s flashy and completely fantastical. I’m still trying to work through whether or not I find his films misogynistic or fetishizing violence towards women. On one hand, we have a bulk of his films which feature conniving or downright evil mothers and shrewish, two-faced young women as plot devices, and on the other hand we have Lady Vengeance (which contains roughly the same sorts of vile women, but with a female as the protagonist). Lady Vengeance was cathartic for me and made me cry. I’ll probably have to watch the movies again to refresh my memory, though.

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo fell a little flat for me, too, especially the ending. I’m curious about Fincher’s remake, though the accents and Mara’s styling seem a bit over-the-top.

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  1. timecodereading said: About Irreversible: the rape scene is very hard to bear, and it lasts forever. It’s the most horrible rape scene I have ever seen. I don’t know what to think of it: could it be of any use to make people aware of what rape is?
  2. baconeatingbastard said: Enter the Void and Irreversible are two of my most hated films, yet I can’t stop thinking about them (especially EtV, which was my first Noe film). I like his visual style (for the most part), but loathe his writing and characters.
  3. abuseme6 said: did you watch sympathy for mr vengeance? it is another park chan-wook movie. i believe it is the first to what they call the vengeance trilogy which includes oldboy and lady vengeance. you should really check it out if you loved the other two.
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