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I have many I can (and will) add, but this list was inspired by:
"LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT"
It means "Time Destroys Everything" (or, "Time Destroys All Things"). From the movie Irreversible (2002)
SPOILERS for the movie:
Irreversible is a "modern French extremity" movie and the scenes are in reverse-linear order (the first scene we see is the last scene chronologically and the last scene we see if the first scene chronologically). Basically, we first see a depressed man sitting in a jail cell [interesting factoid: the man sharing his cell is the main character from another French extremity, I Stand Alone). We then see the man hunting through a nightclub for another man whom he finds and proceeds to use a fire extinguisher to absolutely wreck his face in one of the most graphic and realistic scenes of violence I have ever seen. I actually have no idea how they did it, effects wise. The man is lying on the ground and we see the extinguisher smashed into his face over and over, his face collapsing and disintegrating more and more with each hit, while the camera never pans away once. We also find out that the man survives (which is honestly WORSE than if he'd died like that) and also that he was innocent and just standing next to the man who actually [we'll find out soon].
Next is the man we're following (Marcus) searching for the other guy and finally being told by some prostitutes that he's "up The Rectum" (the name of the club).
In the next scene is Marcus finding out that his fiance, Alex) has been raped and murdered.
Then we see him LOOKING for his fiance, asking around after her.
Next is the second disturbing scene is next as we see Alex leaving a house party, alone. She walks through a tunnel where a man assaults her and brutally rapes her (in a scene that goes on for about 8 minutes). Half-way through - after she is badly beaten and being raped, but has not suffered any grievous or life-threatening injuries - we see another man enter the tunnel in the background, look at what is happening for a few seconds, and then walk back out the way he entered. She is brutally raped for a while longer and then killed.
Next is the house party scene, and then Alex, Marcus and a friend walking to the party.
Finally, we see Alex and Marcus in their apartment together. She tells him she is pregnant and they are both very happy.
The movie ends the previous day with the couple laughing and having a picnic together in a field. The camera turn up to the sky and spins around faster and faster until the words "LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT" appear on screen.
It feels a lot more profound when you've just watched the horrific ruination of a happy young couple. Every character we saw was either a monster (the rapist, the man who could have saved Alex, even Marcus in the end hurting the innocent man) or has their life destroyed for no reason (Alex, Marcus, the innocent man).
End SPOILERS
But it's stuck with me for well over a decade now because it's extremely true. There is no one single thing on Earth - or in the Universe - that will not eventually be destroyed by time.
I think about it all the time.
"LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT"
It means "Time Destroys Everything" (or, "Time Destroys All Things"). From the movie Irreversible (2002)
SPOILERS for the movie:
Irreversible is a "modern French extremity" movie and the scenes are in reverse-linear order (the first scene we see is the last scene chronologically and the last scene we see if the first scene chronologically). Basically, we first see a depressed man sitting in a jail cell [interesting factoid: the man sharing his cell is the main character from another French extremity, I Stand Alone). We then see the man hunting through a nightclub for another man whom he finds and proceeds to use a fire extinguisher to absolutely wreck his face in one of the most graphic and realistic scenes of violence I have ever seen. I actually have no idea how they did it, effects wise. The man is lying on the ground and we see the extinguisher smashed into his face over and over, his face collapsing and disintegrating more and more with each hit, while the camera never pans away once. We also find out that the man survives (which is honestly WORSE than if he'd died like that) and also that he was innocent and just standing next to the man who actually [we'll find out soon].
Next is the man we're following (Marcus) searching for the other guy and finally being told by some prostitutes that he's "up The Rectum" (the name of the club).
In the next scene is Marcus finding out that his fiance, Alex) has been raped and murdered.
Then we see him LOOKING for his fiance, asking around after her.
Next is the second disturbing scene is next as we see Alex leaving a house party, alone. She walks through a tunnel where a man assaults her and brutally rapes her (in a scene that goes on for about 8 minutes). Half-way through - after she is badly beaten and being raped, but has not suffered any grievous or life-threatening injuries - we see another man enter the tunnel in the background, look at what is happening for a few seconds, and then walk back out the way he entered. She is brutally raped for a while longer and then killed.
Next is the house party scene, and then Alex, Marcus and a friend walking to the party.
Finally, we see Alex and Marcus in their apartment together. She tells him she is pregnant and they are both very happy.
The movie ends the previous day with the couple laughing and having a picnic together in a field. The camera turn up to the sky and spins around faster and faster until the words "LE TEMPS DETRUIT TOUT" appear on screen.
It feels a lot more profound when you've just watched the horrific ruination of a happy young couple. Every character we saw was either a monster (the rapist, the man who could have saved Alex, even Marcus in the end hurting the innocent man) or has their life destroyed for no reason (Alex, Marcus, the innocent man).
End SPOILERS
But it's stuck with me for well over a decade now because it's extremely true. There is no one single thing on Earth - or in the Universe - that will not eventually be destroyed by time.
I think about it all the time.
