: Critics often analyze the film as a study of male ego and destructive rage. The two male leads, Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel), respond to trauma with a spiral of violence that only leads to further ruin. Notorious Production & Style

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While walking home through a pedestrian underpass, Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a man nicknamed "Le Ténia".

He closed his laptop, the room finally silent. He had looked for a "shocker," but he found a meditation on how a single moment can destroy everything. As the film's tagline says: Le temps détruit tout "Time destroys everything"