“Enter the Void” (film review)

“Enter the Void” is a most aptly titled piece of shit directed by Gaspar Noe’.   It’s like being stuck in a K-hole:  you aren’t having fun, but you’re already there and you paid good money, so you just stay put waiting to get off.  I waited for two and a half hours for a payoff that never came.  (a huh, huh, huh-I said “came”)

The movie is visually stunning.  Absolutely gorgeous.  Very few of the effects are done in post, either.  It really is shot in such a way that is jaw-dropping.  It is cinematographically amazing.  Truly does blow the mind and give the viewer the feeling that they are experiencing the drugs the characters are taking in the moments that Noe’ has graced us with a plot.

Oh, yeah.  The plot.  There’s a brother and sister whose parents die when they are very young.  They make a pact to never leave each other.  That pact is broken when the sister is sent to live in a different foster home.  They keep in touch through the years until eventually they are in their late teens/early twenties.  The brother is a drug dealer in Tokyo finally financially able to reunite with his sister.  He brings her over, they take lots of drugs and he
dies in a deal gone bad.  Then, the last hour is spent re-hashing scenes, clips and flashbacks of the first half of the movie.  The only new element in the last half of the film is the symbol of a woman’s breast as the life in all of us, now
and beyond.  Not a terribly new concept and is just as mind numbingly boring as the rest of this drivel.

For God’s sake, skip this movie.  In times of recession, save your money.  Put it towards your child’s college tuition.  Hopefully, they major in film and go on to make much better films than “Enter the Void”.