badge is correct. Martyrs- and most of the French extremist movement- is torture porn disguised as shallow philosophical nihilism. For the naive, its a revelation. For the jaded, its a dull slog through a blind alley.
One of my all time favorite horror movies, and the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. The acting is fantastic, you care about the main characters, and it genuinely terrified me. You can call the second half pseudo-intellectual and pretentious, but I disagree. It's a movie about pain and what people will do to justify inflicting pain on others. The villains have a motivation. The characters might be pseudo-intellectual, but not the movie itself.
That's why the ending is so effective. She realizes that what they've been doing is bullshit and completely unjustified.
Intensely nihilistic and sadistic. It's not out to give you a lecture or leaven things with humour - just straight horror from beginning to end. And I think the point it makes at the end is reasonably well done - pain and horror can be transcendant for the watchers of horror films and this is conveyed through the metaphor of a cult of pain.
There are certainly problems with the third act, which wobbles badly with too much exposition, lessening the feeling of terror by explaining things, but overall this stands as an important and very good, though flawed, achievement in horror film-making.
Ok, I agree that this movie last hour was a complete change in direction from the past hour and that for the most part the "martyrs religion" was nonsensical but the ending was perfect, just the best possible.
Also, I don't think that this was so gruesome or violent like some say, "Human Centipede" was grosser and Funny Games was much harder to watch.
The worst thing is that I was bored many times and this doesn't have any rewatchability.
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E. T. Blunt
Part I: A brutal story of trauma and unconditional love.Part II: A brutal story the danger of justifying martyrdom.
armyofshadows
badge is correct. Martyrs- and most of the French extremist movement- is torture porn disguised as shallow philosophical nihilism. For the naive, its a revelation. For the jaded, its a dull slog through a blind alley.Shingwauk
I got my check on this movie but I not going to pretend that I actually watched the whole thing. Waaaay to much for me.DrWade42
One of my all time favorite horror movies, and the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. The acting is fantastic, you care about the main characters, and it genuinely terrified me. You can call the second half pseudo-intellectual and pretentious, but I disagree. It's a movie about pain and what people will do to justify inflicting pain on others. The villains have a motivation. The characters might be pseudo-intellectual, but not the movie itself.ermi
Well, I admit I had a very hard time sitting through this one. Even at a point I had to pause the movie to regain my mental strength.ChrisReynolds
Intensely nihilistic and sadistic. It's not out to give you a lecture or leaven things with humour - just straight horror from beginning to end. And I think the point it makes at the end is reasonably well done - pain and horror can be transcendant for the watchers of horror films and this is conveyed through the metaphor of a cult of pain.There are certainly problems with the third act, which wobbles badly with too much exposition, lessening the feeling of terror by explaining things, but overall this stands as an important and very good, though flawed, achievement in horror film-making.
badge
You can dress this up as much as you like and put a bow on it, but it's still just torture porn.SkilledLunatic
Ok, I agree that this movie last hour was a complete change in direction from the past hour and that for the most part the "martyrs religion" was nonsensical but the ending was perfect, just the best possible.Also, I don't think that this was so gruesome or violent like some say, "Human Centipede" was grosser and Funny Games was much harder to watch.
The worst thing is that I was bored many times and this doesn't have any rewatchability.
Chris Goodwin
I'm surprised at all the hate - modern horror masterpiece 100% - best we've had in many years.....LMTR14
I wrote a very long review on imdb on why this movie SUCKSArmoreska
.Hey! Computer! Violence is no laughing matter.
Ralf
One of my favorite horror films of the 21st century.Gershwin
Sick.Aissi
The second half was rubbish. But I think it's worth seeing just for the first 15 minutes.nicolino
Really really bad. Starts off as a slasher genre piece and descends into pseudo-intellectual philosophical crap.Yes, that was my thought too
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