You know the drill on Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void by now. Some adore it. Some despise it. But it's pretty much impossible to ignore. Brash, challenging and hallucinatory, the latest from the director of Irreversible is a truly immersive experience that really requires the big screen to fully appreciate. And Toronto audiences waiting for that opportunity will get it starting on December 30th, when the film arrives at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar's a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister - that he would never abandon her - refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar's a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister - that he would never abandon her - refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
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Best movie of the year. Enjoy Toronto
I gotta be honest, and I hope I dont offend anyone, but this film, while it had a lot of good things going for it, I felt it walked the fine line of almost being softcore-going-to-hardcore porn film.
Never mind the hardcore porn (if digital), how about the abortion scene? Ugh.
Amazing movie-making still.
The first 100-110 minutes are amazing! An absolute four star film during that time period. HOWEVER, the last 60 minutes are, being generous, roughly one star. There are about 2-3 good points around 100-110 minutes where the film could come to a conclusion but it does not. Instead, the film DRAGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS for what felt like the longest 60 minutes of my entire lifespan. I hope that Enter the Void will be released on blu-ray in a 100-110 minute four star cut with the remaining 60 minutes as some sort of easter egg that is not easily accessible; I want to forget that those 60 gratuitous minutes were ever part of the film.
I just wanted to share with you guys that I did in fact take this in on NYE. I had seen the movie a month earlier as a download, even on my 32" tv I thought the film was incredible but I was dying to see it on the big screen. So myself and a couple of friends decided to make it our NYE plans except with one small addition....we ate mushrooms.
OH.
MY.
GOD!
In a way it was the greatest experience of my life... In another way I had a completley 4 dimensional movie experience that rocked me to the core. I was constantly grabbing my partners hand to re-assure myself that I was infact in a movie theatre and not just Oscar. By the time we got around to the second round of flashbacks and we see Oscars sister screaming as she is dragged into the elevator I had officially checked out and had lost my mind. We left about half-way through (not becasue the movie wasn't amazing but we were all tripping pretty hard) as I walked around downtown toronto with a half hour to midnight it still felt as though I was in the movie. All in all an incredible experience.
I'm thinking of going one more time sober cause frankly as amazing as the movie is on a HDTV it doesn't hold a candle to how it looks on a movie screen.
GO SEE THIS MOVIE AT THE LIGHTBOX
DON'T SEE THIS MOVIE ON HALLUCINAGENICS (unless your balls-out crazy) As much fun as it was this film is a drug unto itself.
sorry for any spelling/grammer mistakes. I'm at work on a shitty keyboard with sticky keys and I can't be bothered to go back over this post.
One last thing: GASPAR NOE is a genius