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Rating: 8.5 stars

All movies seen on 12/13/2011

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Enter the Void (2009)

Directed by Gaspar Noé

Drama

Most recently watched by noahphex, seanCduregger, sleestakk

Overview

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past—where he sees his parents before their deaths—to the present—where he witnesses his own autopsy—and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Rated NR | Length 161 minutes

Actors

Paz de la Huerta | Nathaniel Brown | Cyril Roy | Olly Alexander | Masato Tanno | Ed Spear | Emily Alyn Lind | Jesse Kuhn | Nobuko Imai | Sakiko Fukuhara | Janice Béliveau-Sicotte | Sara Stockbridge | Stuart Miller | Emiko Takeuchi | Rumiko Kimishima | Jessica De Marco

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

About a year ago you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting someone’s opinion on this movie; it was all the rage. I planned on watching it early this year when it showed up on Netflix Instant, but held off as I was told it was an edited version.

My friend Jay loaned me his Bluray which I then sat on for nearly 10 months, awaiting the right opportunity to watch this. I finally pulled the trigger and I am both sad and glad that I waited so long. Sad, because I think I was influenced too much by other people’s remarks on Twitter about the film; glad because I was able to watch it long after anyone stopped caring about what my opinion on it might be.

I thought it was technically brilliant. The opening credits alone, which felt like a Scraping Foetus off the Wheel album come to life, were fantastic and worth some sort of an award.

The film itself is brilliantly shot and edited with an exceptional soundtrack. It also lacks any sort of emotional depth; I never really made a connection with any of the characters, nor cared much about what happened to them. I think the reason for that is the same thing that makes the film technically brilliant: the kind of first person camera work. You are constantly aware of the plane that exists between you and the movie; constantly reminded that you are a spectator, not an involved participant, physically or emotionally.

Well worth a watch, but ultimately I felt like it fell short of its goal.

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