This began life as a study of a committed relationship for director Gaspar Noé. He wanted to make the film with a real-life couple and husband and wife Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci ideally fit the bill. However, as the trio started workshopping ideas for the film, it started to take on a much darker hue.
The blood on Alex' face, and the visible genitals of the rapist, both towards the end of the rape scene, were added digitally afterwards, as were the smashed-face effects in the club fight scene.
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[First lines]
Philippe: You want me to say it? Time destroys everything.
What is the meaning of the sequence of flashing lights at the end?
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The flashing lights are to create a sense of uneasiness again. Gaspar Noe uses low frequency sound to create nausea, headaches, and disorientation in the beginning and uses it again here to make the viewer feel sick after the mood changes dramatically.Also it symbolizes the chaos that occurs in the universe & how life can easily spiral out of control as it does in the movie.
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What is the fire extinguisher scene?
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During the movie one of the leads searches for the suspected rapist in an underground sex club. When he locates someone that he believes to be the man (but isn't) a fight
between the two ends with a brutal repeated head bashing of the suspect with a fire extinguisher. The scene is hyper-realistic and hard to watch.