An annoying movie with annoying characters. Although I can see the art in it: the underlying story with the camera and the scenes in reverse, the deescalating of the violence and chaos the more the movie progresses (the more we travel back in time), the contrast between party A and party B, the different types of violence between the lovescene and the rapescene, the 2001 Space Odyssey poster etc. It's there, and it's good but it's a little on the nose... Like [spoiler]Bellucci's dream about the red corridor breaking in two. [/spoiler]

This whole movie basically is a depiction of violence and strife in a world where love, all different kinds, also exists.
As a piece of art this movie is good, not great... just good. As a movie it fails for me due to the characters who, to me, are a bunch of grandstanding dickheads. Dickheads I've encountered plenty of times going out, dickheads I might have been at some point or the other.

I also can't help but feel that this is a bit of a anti-male movie; portraying them as violent, sex oriented brutes and whiney losers wanting to suckle one last time on Monica's breasts whereas women are pure, true, beings who read and bare innocence in their wombs. Which is fine by me, you're allowed to say that in a movie, there's plenty others as well.

I don't agree that this movie isn't for the faint of heart and by the end scene I had one to many "oh yeah, you HAD to put that in there to make it worse" but I simply do not enjoy dickheads and assholes and this movie made me feel like I was surrounded by them for 1:33mins without a way to get out.

Time destroys all things... Deep... But without time there isn't anything and time also creates everything so without time there isn't anything. Maybe that sums this movie up (it did for the director) but it merely tells me this is just "arty farty"... And I've been around those people a little too much too in the past. I'd have enjoyed this more when I was 16 and fully developing in artschool, not at my 38 having already seen what it really is.