Did anyone else feel frustrated?
<There might be tiny spoilers>
I finally saw this film last night (I think it's taken me this long to get over Irreversible). While there were definitely scenes that were disturbing, I felt my over riding feeling was of frustration at the amount of talk without action.
The Butcher spends the vast majority of the film thinking about what he'd like to without actually doing very much of it at all and still this morning I'm trying to work out where the root of my frustration comes from.
Is it that I felt annoyance at the character for getting so enraged without actually doing anything about it?
Is it that I actually see a lot of myself and other people in the character? Clearly not the same situation but human beings (especially the English like myself) love to moan without doing anything to solve the problem.
Or was it simply that my horror loving self was frustrated by the lack of violence and bloodshed in a film I had heard was incredibly disturbing (personally I didn't find it in the same league of disturbing as Irreversible or many other films of its ilk).
I'm not attacking the film in any way, in fact I'm certain a lot of it was deliberate on Noe's part, I just wondered if anyone else experienced similar.
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