Enter The Void is a 'psychedelic melodrama' by controversial French filmmaker Gaspar Noe. It is the follow-up to his notoriously violent, dizzying picture [i]Irreversible[/i] (2002).
The film features many similar features to [i]Irreversible[/i], such as bizarre, unconventional, 'backwards' credits. It also features dizzying, nauseating camerawork which makes the movie far more immersive than any modern 3D schlock. It is also filmed entirely from a first person view, resembling a video game.
The story explores what happens to a young man, Oscar, after he is shot in a Tokyo nightclub. His soul leaves his body, and in a dizzy, neon excursion resembling an LSD trip, travels across Tokyo, checking on his friends and family. Every now and again his soul recapitualtes to events earlier in his life and becomes deliberately anachronistic, showing him as a child with his sister at her current age, or his friend Alex sleeping with his mother.
It's quite a difficult and arresting film to watch, but is incredibly enjoyable in a slightly different way from Irreversible. It's not quite as violent but there is a lot of sex. Many viewers have compared it to an acid trip and said it had an almost identical sensation.
Trailer:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI89ovR36r0[/media]
Highly recommended - I travelled to another town to watch this as it wasn't showing in my hometown. Well worth it.
gaspar noe is a fantastic director, but i heard that this sucked?
i cant tell what this movie is about but it looks cool.
it looks like the guy is a drug dealer and he gets killed and is some sort of spirit watching over his sister
thats pretty much exactly what its about
Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's very strange and perhaps a little too long, but for the most part it is riveting.
If words like 'metaphysical' and 'consciousness' turn you on then you will enjoy it. Most people are reminded of 2001: A Space Odyssey (and there are certainly parallels) and also of [i]Altered States[/i]. Good stuff. Like the Tibetan Book of the Dead meets Sigmund Freud.
I've been waiting to see this movie for well over a year now after seeing Irreversible, and I finally found it. Very excited to finally see it.
Unfortunately, my mom decided to watch it with me. That is, already halfway through the movie. She didn't stop talking, practically killed the movie for me. All of my rage.
Nonetheless, the movie was incredible. Well worth the wait for me, I just wish I could've watched it by myself.
I'll be checking it out ASAP!
Whatb if I had epilepsy and watched that trailer?
I couldve been dead now.
[QUOTE=professor cool.;25317408]gaspar noe is a fantastic director, but i heard that this sucked[/QUOTE]
i've seen it twice and i walked out the first time underwhelmed, then watched it again later knowing what I was going into and enjoyed it much more.
the film is an incredible technical achievement but the plot aspect is the film's downfall. the dialogue is amateurish and embarrassing at times, nathaniel brown is an awful actor and sounds like napoleon dynamite, paz de la huerta is just mediocre, but the little girl who plays young linda is absolutely nightmarish and her performance was brilliant and certain scenes of hers will haunt me forever (if you've seen it you know what i'm talking about).
the movie really comes down to 'oscar watches his sister fuck things for 2 hours and 20 minutes' and a lot of the really cool camera trickery and effects get tedious after you've seen them repeated the exact same way in the 5 previous scenes.
it's a shame because this really could have been his masterpiece but it was hampered by poor casting choices and an awful 15 year old script, one of the reasons irreversible was so hard hitting is that the cassel and dupontel are great actors, worked well together and that they improvised pretty much all of the dialogue.
it's still an experience worthy of your time though, give it a shot. the eventual blu-ray will be gorgeous.
edit: also the movie has the greatest opening credits of all time:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssTGcOdWqs&hd=1[/media]
[QUOTE=Ninjers;25581249]i've seen it twice and i walked out the first time underwhelmed, then watched it again later knowing what I was going into and enjoyed it much more.
the film is an incredible technical achievement but the plot aspect is the film's downfall. the dialogue is amateurish and embarrassing at times, nathaniel brown is an awful actor and sounds like napoleon dynamite, paz de la huerta is just mediocre, but the little girl who plays young linda is absolutely nightmarish and her performance was brilliant and certain scenes of hers will haunt me forever (if you've seen it you know what i'm talking about).
the movie really comes down to 'oscar watches his sister fuck things for 2 hours and 20 minutes' and a lot of the really cool camera trickery and effects get tedious after you've seen them repeated the exact same way in the 5 previous scenes.
it's a shame because this really could have been his masterpiece but it was hampered by poor casting choices and an awful 15 year old script, one of the reasons irreversible was so hard hitting is that the cassel and dupontel are great actors, worked well together and that they improvised pretty much all of the dialogue.
it's still an experience worthy of your time though, give it a shot. the eventual blu-ray will be gorgeous.
edit: also the movie has the greatest opening credits of all time:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UssTGcOdWqs&hd=1[/media][/QUOTE]
LFO - Freak
Wow, how have so few people here seen it! I thought Facepunch liked the movies.
I missed it, because it was shown some months ago in the country I live in.
And I'm unable to find an online stream...
Anyone else seen this yet?
I saw it and it's esaily one of my favorite films. I love it thanks to the satting and visuals.
It's a 2009 movie.
very cool movie, Gaspar Noe is a great director im going to look forward to this future films, the opening credits are awesome just as they were in irreversible, he has a very distinct style of filmmaking.
at a certain point in the film there is a scene that leads the audience to believe that oscar has been brought back to life but has brain damage, in the scene his sister refuses to look at him and says that oscar is no longer her brother, does anyone know if this scene was an actual event in the film or whether is was a dream/trip/alternate reality or something similar as it is not referenced after the scene ends and later scenes suggest that it didn't actually happen.
any thoughts on what it means/represents?
Masterpiece. Mind=blown.
When I get my apt I'm going do dedicate a room to serve as a smoking/enter the void room.
I'm glad I watched it, but I can't say I loved it. It was too unique to slam, but it really didn't have a whole lot going for it. At the half way mark it started to get tiring and by the end of it I was totally mentally exhausted. For the rest of the night, my eyes were fucked and I felt disoriented.
It achieved the purpose of reaching me at a deeper level, but perhaps it was so deep I can't even find it. I just felt that, while the visuals were amazing, the subject matter didn't consist of much and ultimately it was relatively pointless.
The only reason any of it makes remotely any sense is because Gasper introduced the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which serves as explanation enough for the rest of the entire film.
It was a unique look into the psyche and afterlife, but ultimately an exhausting and fruitless one.
But in saying that, the opening credits were probably my favourite of any film's so far.
It was very gripping and I felt obliged to continue watch it, but it's definitely not my favorite film of all time. Still a good movie.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;26873298]I'm glad I watched it, but I can't say I loved it. It was too unique to slam, but it really didn't have a whole lot going for it. At the half way mark it started to get tiring and by the end of it I was totally mentally exhausted. For the rest of the night, my eyes were fucked and I felt disoriented.
It achieved the purpose of reaching me at a deeper level, but perhaps it was so deep I can't even find it. I just felt that, while the visuals were amazing, the subject matter didn't consist of much and ultimately it was relatively pointless.
The only reason any of it makes remotely any sense is because Gasper introduced the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which serves as explanation enough for the rest of the entire film.
It was a unique look into the psyche and afterlife, but ultimately an exhausting and fruitless one.
But in saying that, the opening credits were probably my favourite of any film's so far.[/QUOTE]
I read a programme they were giving out at the cinema I saw it and Noé insisted that he wasn't aiming for a spiritual experience. It's just that the kid was on so much dope when he got shot that his brain had excess DMT flowing through it - and as we know, the brain releases DMT when we come, dream, or die, and so this experience was taken to an absolutely hyperreal level.
I also felt ill and my eyes hurt afterwards, I stood outside in the cold and had a cigarette just turning it over in my mind and stretching as if I had just woken up. I really loved it. Did you see it in a cinema Rusty?
I initially saw it at a cinema, but while the main character was walking to the Void, the sound cut horribly out of sync all of a sudden, about a minute and a half out of sync. I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be that way or not, it was so trippy that it partially felt intended. But soon I realised it wasn't so me and my friends left. But that night I watched the Blu-ray in my home theatre.
Sweet, you have the blu ray already? When was it released?
[QUOTE=Publius;26903083]Sweet, you have the blu ray already? When was it released?[/QUOTE]
here's a handy website for that kind of thing
[url]http://www.blu-ray.com/search/?quicksearch=1§ion=movies&quicksearch_keyword=enter+the+void&searchbutton.x=0&searchbutton.y=0[/url]
Not as good as Irreversible but still a great film.
Yeah I think I preferred Irreversible. Something bizarre about that movie, that shouldn't have worked, but did. Noé somehow made it remain interesting after all the shocking bits were out of the way.
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