Irony?....

Rating: 7/10 (12 January 2006)

Anyone notice the irony in the fact that everyone that went to see this movie saw it because of our fascination with horror and gore and the fact that the entire premise of this movie surrounds and focuses on this building where people go to live out their inner most desires of torture and killing. Eli Roth has us despising these characters, like the one the Jay Hernandez character meets in the locker room. However, in a sense we are similar to these people in that we spent our money to go and see this torture and horror on the big screen. Obviously, I know there is a big difference between the actual act and watching it in a movie. However, I did see the irony that Roth (perhaps unknowingly)displayed to his audience in the entire experience of Hostel.