Enter The Void (2010)

[res0nat0r]

The long-awaited follow up to his controversial IRREVERSIBLE, ENTER THE VOID is an immersive and mind-bending experience. Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta star in a visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls the viewer into an astonishing trip through life, death, and the universally wonderful and horrible moments between.

This should probably be a crazy great film with some amazing visuals.

[Huggie Smiles]

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This should probably be a crazy great film with some amazing visuals.

that pretty much sums it up!

WILD! visual effects - some of the best drug trip scenes/effects Ive seen.

However, WAY too long and a decidedly dull storyline really. tries to be very high IQ - but misses the plot on many occasions.

Defo read the wiki page/ rotten tomatoes reviews before you spend lots of money on it.

Great visuals tho

[feather]

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Love the colours, almost looks like a Wong Kar Wai + Christopher Doyle film.

[trick12]

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WILD! visual effects - some of the best drug trip scenes/effects Ive seen.

i think that pretty much sums it up

[res0nat0r]

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humm

[res0nat0r]

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This is a very good read:

http://godheadv.blogspot.com/2010/04/abandoned-on-everest.html

[Huggie Smiles]

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thats nice but not much a film review

[ribbario]

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wicked , trippy ! good i supose !

[Highsteppa]

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I'm a bit divided on Gaspar Noe (the director). When I first saw Irreversible, I absolutely hated it for the rather ugly nature of the film and the fact that it was released pretty closely after Memento came out, making the backwards told narrative seem a bit like a rip off. There were a lot of critics that felt the same way. When I watched it again, I got a better sense of what he was doing and really admired how extremely talented he was as a director (the fact that he could do really long takes without an edit, gets really fantastic performances out of his actors and willing to be a lot more blunt and graphic than what most other people would be in the same director's chair).

I'm trying to find the Blu Ray of this - I'm told it's not really a movie that is really meant to be watched straight, but considering how utterly fucked up the visuals look and the fact that the story seems to be a man's death rattle stretched out into two hours of psychedelic Tokyo skylines, I'm a bit intimidated to watch it on mushrooms like one of my buddies did at the TIFF Lightbox theatre last month.

[Highsteppa]

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Watched it. Own the blu ray, and it's one of the only movies in my collection that I actually somewhat fear. It's probably one of the most trippy and disturbing films I've ever come across in a very, very long time. Never thought someone would be bold enough to try to capture The Tibetan Book of the Dead and manage to develop in the process one of the most invasive, intruding films in the process.

The first hour is from the first person point of view - that is, you're seeing the world through the eyes (including momentary black outs to simulate blinking), hearing the voice of the character in a way that sounds like how your voice sounds to you, in your head versus the sounds of the world around you. It is so disorienting and intrusive at the same time and a technically incredible achievement.

The remainder of it tackles death and reincarnation in such an beautiful and disturbing headtrip that there's absolutely no way I'm gonna watch this under any kind of hallucination inducing kind of substance (which is what it begs to be watched under). I watched it on weed and it disturbed the living shit out of me.

Approach with caution. Paul Blart-oriented movie watchers don't even bother.

[res0nat0r]

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Woah...I haven't been able to watch this yet, that is crazy. I wanted to see it on the bigscreen but it didn't come out around here, I bet that would have been crazy.

[CircleGuy]

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just saw this over the weekend. was a good movie and i agree with what highsteppa posted above. a disturbingly unique take on life and death