gridoon2018 For more than 90 minutes, I flirted with the idea of giving "Enter The Void" the first perfect 10 on this site that I would have ever given to a movie (I have rated some specific TV episodes "10"). Words simply cannot describe the experience: it is astonishing, immersive, transcendental - a "legal high". Gaspar Noe's floating camera is like a magic carpet carrying you along. But around the point where the flashbacks chronicling Oscar's past end, the film starts to get a little too indulgent, and I could see the ending coming a mile away. Despite all that, a trip like no other. *** out of 4.

misterbels I must write something, just 'must', I'm an almost 60 year old Belgian living in Vietnam, first 8 years in Saigon, and now finally and luckily out in the countryside again. Last year, I was in Tokyo for two weeks and loved it to bits, so I understand the attraction of Tokyo for young people. Enter The Void depicts Tokyo not only from a western eye but from an Asian eye too, I cannot explain why but it does. As an artist myself I understand the desolateness one may experience in any foreign culture, in this case, Asian.I assume that most of my colleague-workers as teachers, both in Tokyo or HCMC can relate to this movie well, not only because of the setting of ourselves in such an other culture but - and here I need to be careful - most expats in Asia have mostly 'a reason' to be in Asia. My reason to be here has to do with the death of my brother. And I have found a motive and reason to continue living here because of it.Alienation is part of my life, yet 'connection' too. Let's put it like this, one may be alienated from alienation, which is bad of course and yet again connect with life in another dimension, not always understanding why but yet doing so. A relief. Art is coming to terms with an alienation based in a memory that hasn't died. This movie does that greatly, and I don't think viewers may easily understand the producer of this movie, but this movie - as art usually does and should be doing - transports the viewer to its own familial trauma's and alienations. How we cope with them is the stuff for psychiatrist and yes, you name it, artists. This movie is a work of art. THANK YOU PRODUCER.

Asif Khan (asifahsankhan) Directed by Gaspar Noé, Enter the Void (2009 movie) is "the psychological story of a soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection."—Which is one of the weirdest reasons why this film is always at the top of my weird movie lists. It's one of a kind—a strange and tragic story! Nevertheless, it's one hell of a picture in motion. It is loud, garish, ugly and staggeringly empty. If your idea of visionary filmmaking is someone flashing brightly coloured lights at you, then count yourself in for a treat; you are about to experience some visionary filmmaking. The rest of us will get a repetitive shuffling of unpleasant individuals doing unpleasant things, inter-cut with lots of neon and occasionally a towering penis shoved in our faces (Thank God it wasn't shot in 3D). I don't care how amazing of a technical experience this is. Not only does the emperor have no clothes. He's tea-bagging your wife.Worth watching? Just that one time for a lot of you, probably (if not surely). It's not the greatest film ever made, possibly one of the most memorable cinema experiences in terms of effects, it's overlong, uncomfortable, and excessive, but of course, it's worth viewing as there aren't many movies like it. I'm not epileptic, but I do suffer (even though I hate using that word in this context) from hypnotic (sleep paralysis.) If my understanding is correct, this movie is centred (loosely) around DXM, which triggers lucid dreams. I feel like, because of that, it can get really relocatable for some us. It's not a horror movie, and can't possibly worry about being "scared," per say, I just know it's incredibly real and explicit, and don't want it to keep me awake at night because I can't get the images out of my head.This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz De La Huerta). 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.Overall, it is, in its way, just as provocative, just as extreme, just as mad, just as much of an outrageous ordeal: it arrives here slightly re-edited from the version first shown at Cannes. But despite its querulous melodrama and crazed Freudian pedantry's, it has a human purpose and its sheer deranged brilliance is magnificent. This is a grandiose hallucinatory journey into, and out of, hell: drugged, neon-lit and with a fully realised nightmare-porn aesthetic that has to be seen to be believed. Love him or loathe him – and I've done both in my time – Gaspar Noé (director) is one of the very few directors who is actually trying to do something new with the medium, battling at the boundaries of the possible. It has obvious debts, but "Enter the Void" is utterly original film-making, and Noé is a virtuoso of camera movement.

Minos Turn off the lights, lock your eyes on the screen and be dazed. This brutally honest visualization of life will burn itself into your head. Gaspar Noé has made a movie like no other i have seen before. The closest comparison may be "2001: A Space Odyssey", yet incredibly this movie even transcends Kubricks nauseating travel through space and time. "Enter the Void" has not a single traditional shot, but slowly floats through life and death of the main protagonist, flashing at you its neon lights and taking you through grimy streets. It is, as the movie proclaims itself, "the greatest trip of all", and leaves drug-filled Tokyo as flickering backdrop, while exposing the viewer to every harsh, brutal, sexual, desperate, panicked, euphoric and dirty facet of life. There is no hiding from the imagery presented, no pretending, no being above it. As foreign and shocking as the life shown may be to you, it is entirely human, entirely real. What aspects you will take away from this experience i can not tell you, but there are many moments to ponder, many traumas to relate to. Ultimately, what ties "Enter the Void" to movies you have seen before, is the overarching idea of life and death. The human spirit transcending any individual life. A message tackled before, but never before delivered so shockingly honest."Enter the Void" is a great, great work of art. Be open to experience something uncomfortable, shocking and unfamiliar, and you'll be rewarded with a life lesson you will never forget.