Post by Vendaval Este on Oct 15, 2010 9:58:37 GMT
Perfectly described as a "psyachdelic melodrama" by its own director Gaspar Noe, this film is a feverish and relentless assault on the senses. It's about a young drug dealer who was once seperated from his sister but is now with her in Japan, he dies at the start of the film but we follow his soul as it drifts through the multi-coloured metropolis to follow her and the others involved in his recent life, with parts of the film jumping to flash backs.
The film is of an unbelievably high quality as just about every take is a remarkably long uncut track shot with only the best-utilised transitions making the move from one event to the other. Combine it with the film's hallucionatory and fantastical visual style, it's nothing short of spell-binding. Of course, there's a lot of CGI for some of the more complex sequences, but it's masterful, and the use of it feels fully justified as it blends so well.
Forget likable characters, this film is vicious with its cast who play their roles exceptionally well; they all ride a rollercoaster of hard drug use and promiscuous sex, we really see the ugly side of people here, there's even a hauntingly underlying theme of incest. With how we constantly follow the main character's point of view, in and out of death, there's a very restrictive sense to what we see, making some sequences all the more horrifying.
The opening credits will even indicate whether or not this is a film for you, because they blast the screen with a seizure-inducing harshness as the name of every one involved in the production is listed frighteningly fast. If you can't stomach those, then what lies beyond them is definitely not for you.
This is a film that's not meant to make you feel comfortable, so forget conventional filmmaking but that's not to say it's unenjoyable despite its heavy focus on human horrors in it. Beautiful, ugly, offensive, trippy and fantastic, Enter the Void should at least be seen once by everyone, but for the love of god see it in a theatre; I cannot imagine the injustice anyone would perhaps be doing this film if they watched it on an average TV with a basic sound set-up, it would not lose any of its edge mind, you just need the best to really feel the punch of what this film has to offer.
Now if only this was shot in 3D.
The film is of an unbelievably high quality as just about every take is a remarkably long uncut track shot with only the best-utilised transitions making the move from one event to the other. Combine it with the film's hallucionatory and fantastical visual style, it's nothing short of spell-binding. Of course, there's a lot of CGI for some of the more complex sequences, but it's masterful, and the use of it feels fully justified as it blends so well.
Forget likable characters, this film is vicious with its cast who play their roles exceptionally well; they all ride a rollercoaster of hard drug use and promiscuous sex, we really see the ugly side of people here, there's even a hauntingly underlying theme of incest. With how we constantly follow the main character's point of view, in and out of death, there's a very restrictive sense to what we see, making some sequences all the more horrifying.
The opening credits will even indicate whether or not this is a film for you, because they blast the screen with a seizure-inducing harshness as the name of every one involved in the production is listed frighteningly fast. If you can't stomach those, then what lies beyond them is definitely not for you.
This is a film that's not meant to make you feel comfortable, so forget conventional filmmaking but that's not to say it's unenjoyable despite its heavy focus on human horrors in it. Beautiful, ugly, offensive, trippy and fantastic, Enter the Void should at least be seen once by everyone, but for the love of god see it in a theatre; I cannot imagine the injustice anyone would perhaps be doing this film if they watched it on an average TV with a basic sound set-up, it would not lose any of its edge mind, you just need the best to really feel the punch of what this film has to offer.
Now if only this was shot in 3D.
