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(2002)

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Sex & Nudity

  • In the scene at the party where Monica Bellucci's character goes into a room to retrieve her purse before leaving, a woman is seen clearly giving a blowjob to the man on the bed (penis shown) while about six or seven people are lying about, watching. When she leaves, a man says "Close the door".
  • Some sexually graphic dialogue.
  • A transsexual prostitute reveals her penis while being harassed.
  • A 10-minute sequence set in a gay S&M club with several brief instances of explicit homosexual sex acts (full frontal male nudity shown in flashes, including erected penises). Some references to 'fisting' are heard in this scene.
  • While a man's skull is caved in, a man can be seen rapidly masturbating to the act in the background for a few seconds.
  • A violent rape that clocks in at about 9 minutes. No actual penetration is visible, but thrusting from the man is shown at all times. Both are clothed however the woman is wearing a dress with no bra, and her nipples can be seen poking out. Later, she is brought out of her dress and the man squeezes it several times. The woman tries to escape and her bare buttocks are briefly seen in the process. We see the man's erect penis for a split-second after he finishes the rape. EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.
  • Three people discuss sex and orgasms for a few minutes. Lengthy, but nothing extremely crude.
  • A scene of a naked couple after sex which lasts 14 minutes, female breasts, pubic hair (briefly) and buttocks and male buttocks and genitals are shown, the man is shown kissing the woman's breasts. However, no actual sex is shown in this scene. The man's genitalia is visible for a second or two.

Violence & Gore

  • There is an extremely long scene where a woman is graphically, explicitly and sadistically raped before being savagely beaten. EXTREMELY DISTURBING.
  • A man's head is bashed repeatedly with a fire extinguisher, this is incredibly graphic.
  • A prostitute is threatened with a knife and hit a few times by a man in a group, a bunch of other prostitutes chase after the men yelling and they run away
  • 15/16+ is recommended minimum age of viewing. Irreversible will not interest 99.99999999999% of world population anyway.
  • A man breaks a bottle on another man's head. The two then engage in a brief scuffle.
  • A man pushes and roughs up another man to make him give out the location of someone else. Some grunts are heard, no details are visible.
  • A man is shoved face-first to the ground, then sat on by his assailant. The man then puts his knee on his victim's right elbow and bends it slightly backwards, snapping it. The victim briefly yells in pain. The assailant then attempts to rape the other man, but is stopped immediately by having his face bashed with a fire extinguisher.
  • A taxi driver is pepper-sprayed, he yells in pain briefly.

Profanity

  • As subtitled: about 54 uses of 'fuck', 39 of 'fag' (often used in an angry/aggressive way), several angry uses of 'queer', and from the rapist: 9 instances of 'ass', 8 of 'b-tch', 6 of 'whore', 4 of 'cunt', and 3 of 'slut' (all used aggressively). 'Whore' is said a few times by other characters, mainly in anger. 1 instance of 'p-ssies'. A few aggressive uses of 'hooker'. And infrequent dialogue about 'coming'. Frequent sexual and homophobic language.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man sniffs poppers and offers it to his friend, who obliges, he sniffs again and offers it to another person, who knocks it out of his hand.
  • The rapist uses poppers to enhance his pleasure in the rape scene.
  • A man snorts cocaine in a party.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The 10-minute rape sequence this film is infamous for is extremely disturbing and can cause immense distress and fear on the viewer.
  • The entire film is relentlessly bleak, tragic, depressing and disturbing. DEFINITELY not for the easily disturbed of the faint of heart.
  • All of the frightening scenes said in here and in 'Violence And Gore' is the reason why this movie is one of the most brutal movies ever made.
  • Some scenes in the "Violence" section might be hard to watch for many viewers. The film has an intense atmosphere, lots of angry/aggressive yelling and threats.
  • The 10-minute sequence in the "Rectum" at the beginning is very fast paced, the camera moves around in unnatural positions and is very shaky, the song that is playing was intentionally added to cause potential vertigo.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • In the opening scene a man tells another man how he got arrested by molesting his daughter, this is a plot point of Noés precious film "I stand alone"

Violence & Gore

  • in a tunnel before the rape a man attacks a prostitute during an argument, she runs away, and the man chases after the woman witnessing trapping her and threatening her with a knife
  • The assailant is then hit on the back of the head with a fire extinguisher by a man who proceeds to hit his face 20 times with it. The former assailant begs him to stop a few times and moans as his face starts to squish, cave in, and flatten into a pulpy mess, though details aren't clear due to the faded cinematography.
  • A sequence that begins with a 9-minute rape. After the sexual violence, the victim is kicked in the face twice, briefly spraying blood. The rapist then punches her 5 times and grabs her head and beats it on the pavement 8 times. He then lifts up her face, briefly revealing blood and bits of peeled-off skin.

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