Gaspard Noe did it again! this time with acid neon in tokyo redlight destrict and haunting environment of hallucinogen and of course, what he famous for, hurting audience feeling and giving severe nausea. "Enter the Void" is the latest film came out in 2009, eight years after this french bad boy shocked the world with Irriversible. It is almost three hour of unpredictable jarring sequences. The film starts with opening credit with electronic music (the track is "Freak" by LFO), gaudy neon light typography and the title pops out abruptedly as a sign of what's about to come. Then we are introduced to Oscar and Linda, two brother and sister in tokyo through the eye of the brother in Being-John-Malkovich-like view point. We fully potray him and get every single details he does, even the blink of his eyes. The brother, Oscar is an employed drug dealer who live dangerously day by day and the sister revolves with sex and lust in the strip club. Then after Oscar got shot to death by japanese police, we get throwned out of his body, floating all over the place and found ourselves in the unbearable tragedy crashed over and over. The plot dissolves into childhood flashback, switching back and forth with fragments of impure reality which narrated beautifully with semi-visual effect. Ultimately we learned about how the siblings should never leave each other and almost beg for them a second chance. What worse than Irreversible is that the tragedies come without warning, some of them show up spilt second after sweet pictures. You are not ready to close your eyes. Consequently, Enter the Void audience completely divided into two groups of extremely different opinions. One group hate it because it is exceedingly long, illogical and emotional abusive. The other think it's an awesome movie because it is long, illogical and emotional abusive (and yet very deep). Enter the Void: Trailer
I hate this movie...i hate it but i just can't stop talking about it.
I hate this movie...i hate it but i just can't stop talking about it.
I just watched this movie and thought it was awesome! Now it may fade quickly, but it is not often you see a movie dealing with these subjects in such a gritty way. I mean where else can you find the story of the Tibetan Book of the Dead told through the gritty Tokyo drug underground. A sign of a good movie is always the controversy it causes. This is one you will either love or hate.
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