Irreversible is a revenge film, plain and simple. However, all semblance ends there. It begins where most films end, telling its story backwards, from finish to beginning, in short segments at a time.
Briefly speaking, a woman and her two male friends (one an ex-lover, the other her newest lover - and the men are friends themselves) go to a party. After her new boyfriend makes an ass of himself in public, the woman heads off for home by herself. Except she gets waylaid by a despicable character and brutally raped, then nearly beaten to death. The boyfriends discover her being taken away in ambulance, and that's when they go off to find the man responsible and punish him.
The camera angles will push your buttons, so be careful. Please also note that the director deliberately embedded a low, subliminal drone in the soundtrack at the beginning of the film. It is meant to make the viewers literally sick to their stomach. Trust me on this one, people. You WILL feel nauseous.
This movie bothered me in so many ways, yet I keep thinking back on it. Which makes my recommendation:
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