The Void and The Vanity

Greyson 2022-01-03 08:01:54

Personal 8.5 points

Damn I fucking love it. It's a fucking experience. Relatable af. But the small screen is too uncomfortable to watch and then it really shakes and I feel dizzy. Tokyo is really an interesting city for European and American movies. The whole vibe thing.

Drug, Sex, Death, Reincarnation, Birth, Hallucination, Illusion, and all the emptiness, vanity, and the fragility.

There is also the complex between brother and sister. When the sister wants to kiss the brother, the brother refuses, the sex between the brother and the sister and the mother. The friendship is fragile.

Cinematography is really cool.

Although I think the final ending is a bit draggy and unnecessary. Starting from the hotel section. But Vagina’s subjective shots, sperm ejaculation, and fertilized egg formation are still very cool. But in the end it’s really too drag for the child to be born. There is no need to drag it. .

Then the protagonist's VO is still a bit Distracting, could be blended with the film better.

Then Gaspar Noe really likes to shoot the scene of loud quarrels and tearing arguing and roaring across the door/through the crack of the door.

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Extended Reading
  • Jarvis 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    Sex + drugs + violence + shadows of childhood + reincarnation, the scene of escaping into nothingness is the most bizarre scene ever seen.

  • Rosemary 2022-04-23 07:03:02

    The tangle of five stars and one star. Let's all experience the 160-minute full subjective perspective, the constant drifting and never landing, the dangling that makes people want to vomit, the constant strobe that makes people crazy, and the visual abuse of N color explosions. If you can keep staring at it Looking at it, you will definitely feel the drift of the soul after death, the feeling of a lifetime after taking medicine, the unstoppable orgasm, and the feeling of dizziness, headache, nausea and death.

Enter the Void quotes

  • Oscar: Do you remember that pact we made? We promised to never leave each other.

  • Alex: The drug guy, he's a dirty bastard you know. Yeah, he likes boys.

    Oscar: Who is this?

    Alex: Bruno, the guy that gave me drugs. Don't even take a drink. You take a drink, you might wake up two days later with his shit in your mouth, you know.

    [pause]

    Alex: Or your own shit, you know. I should be able to get him to see you today but I won't come back with you so you should be careful. You know what his new trick is? He can't even be turned on by fucking now, so what he does is...

    Oscar: [looking over the balcony] Hey... I'm not gonna *jump* from here, am I?

    Alex: Hey, once a new guy gives him a blowjob, yeah, he sticks his finger inside his own ass, and then he wipes his finger on the back of their head. So they walk around with shit on their hair.