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Originally Posted by Severian
No, I gotcha. I’ve been vocal about my inability to handle certain kinds of realistic violence/brutality/pornography — movies like Irreversible or Nine and a Half Weeks or even Nocturnal Animals... they upset me tremendously. So I will trust you on this one.
Thanks for that, actually.
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The violence is extremely graphic but what I found hardest to deal with was the underlying idea behind it all. The film is quite theological/philosophical in the way it examines pain and humiliation as a kind of path towards transcendence. This sets it above torture-porn films like Saw and if anything makes it even more disturbing.