... how's this one like? In terms of both quality and shock value?
shareNo real shock value here compared to other Noe films, but his trademark flickering lights trickery is there and use of split screen (seemed pretty much like a gimmick to me). Maybe it takes two viewings to appreciate fully, it didn't make a great impression on me the first time. Lots of screaming and shouting!
sharei have to have some kind of horrible, buried childhood trauma that explains why i love gaspar noe fucking with me so much.
i really liked the score.
4.5/5
jlam888 gave a good description above, i'd say.
there's very little of noe's bad boy shock/violence.
the last 12 minutes or so feel a bit like his attempt to recreate the feeling of the credit sequence of enter the void, maybe.
But thing is Mr Suzuki, he is generally considered a talented filmmaker albeit one that makes disturbing and depressive movies and his work for the most part receives generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, even if not to the degree of some other great filmmakers present or especially past times.
shareoh, i am actually a great admirer of what he does. enter the void, irreversible, climax are all big favourites of mine.
honestly, the only thing i haven't truly liked a lot was love, which i found to be a dreary bore. but maybe i'll give it another go one of these days.
if you dig what he does, absolutely give this a watch. it's on mubi in turkey if you have a vpn.
Point basically being, you don't necessarily have to have "some kind of horrible, buried childhood trauma" to appreciate his work as if that is the main or the only reason or way(s) in which it is possible to do so.
On an entirely different level, I appreciate plenty of action and thriller movies that have killings and violence in them from acclaimed masterpieces to solid-to-decent-at-best if not often middle of the road and average direct to video and made for TV productions but I am not specifically drawn to violence in real life or have some violence fixation in general, to give one example.
i once heard on a podcast that noe wanted to make enter the void early in his career, but couldn't get the funding for it.
so he made irreversible instead, in order to make enough profit to fund enter the void.
so he thought of irreversible as his commercial sellout.
i don't know if that's a true story, but it so perfectly captures how i think of him that i choose to believe it, and am not going to fact-check it. if you know that's wrong, please don't correct me. i want to hold onto this.