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2.5/4
Enter the Void review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/27/2012
"Basically, when you die your spirit leaves your body, actually at first you can see all your life, like reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ghost, you can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything but you can't communicate. Then you see lights, lights of all different colours, these lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actually like this world so much, that they don't want to be taken away, so the whole thing turns into a bad trip, and the only way out is to get reincarnated." - Alex. A creative picture that reminded me of disturbing 2001: Space Odyssey, Tree of Life, Mulholland Drive and Diving Belll Fight Club and the Butterfly, The ( Scaphandre et le papillon, Le) but with a less fulfilling …
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3.5/4
Imperfect... but Truly Remarkable
Jeremy - wrote on 02/11/2011
Despite being quite viscerally disturbing at times, a weak script, and occasionally bad acting. Enter the Void is among the most remarkable visual experiences I've seen in a film... ever. Colorful, emotional, affecting, bizarre, unsettling, and completely insane, director Gaspar Noe has flirts with genius but is damaged by an occasionally dragging visual narrative. The camera moves in ways virtually impossible at times (sometimes aided by CGI) and every moment of the film you can feel the Director's careful touch upon each aspect of the visual. Noe's goal has always been to deeply affect his viewers, in this aspect he does not fail at all. He shows the core of our tragic characters issues and then (like the title) we enter the void that they are falling into because of their …
