Enter the Void

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Movie
German title Enter the Void
Original title Enter the Void
Country of production France , Japan , Canada
original language English
Japanese
Publishing year 2009
length 161 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Gaspar Noé
script Gaspar Noé
production Brahim Chioua
Vincent Maraval
Olivier Delbosc
Marc Missonnier
Shin Yamaguchi
music Thomas Bangalter
camera Benoît Debie
cut Gaspar Noé
Marc Boucrot
Jérôme Pesnel
occupation

Enter the Void is a French feature film from 2009. Gaspar Noé wrote the script and directed. The German publication date was August 26, 2010.

action

Since the accidental death of their parents, the American siblings Oscar and Linda have had a close relationship and a vow to stay together under all circumstances. You live in an apartment in Tokyo ; he deals in drugs, she works as a stripper. The film is mostly told from the first person perspective of the Oscars, flashbacks into the past of the two take place from the outside perspective.

The action starts in the evening in the Tokyo apartment. After Linda has left this, Oscar indulges in a hallucinogenic trip , until Victor calls him immediately on a drug deal in the bar The Void (English: the void ). Alex, who comes to visit spontaneously, accompanies him. On the way he gives a lecture on the Tibetan Book of the Dead , a Buddhist script on reincarnation , and anticipates the coming events by describing the process of dying.

In the bar, which Oscar enters alone, it turns out that he has fallen into a trap. After greeting Victor, the police storm the bar. Oscar escapes into a toilet cubicle, but tries in vain to dispose of the drugs by flushing the water. Since the officers want to kick the door, he pretends to have a firearm with him and use it if you don't let go of him. They then open fire, Oscar sinks to the ground, fatally hit. The mind leaves its body and rises - and with it the ego perspective. Since factors such as walls and gravity are no longer obstacles, unusual film passages result.

Following his promise never to leave her, he goes in search of Linda. However, he perceives walking without a body as a nightmarish dimension in which the temporal orientation is blurred. In retrospect, the careers of Linda and Oscar are presented in short sequences; Family happiness during childhood; the car accident that only children survive; the vow in the orphanage to always be there for each other and finally the separation of the two when Linda is taken over by foster parents.

Years later, Oscar lives as a small dealer in Tokyo and can soon also pay for a plane ticket to bring Linda over to him. Here she gets a job as an animation lady with Mario, whom they met earlier together in his nightclub. Oscar's retail trade is booming. But when he expanded his business to include Mario's bar, he was banned from the house. Victor also finds out that his mother had sex with Oscar. This is apparently the motivation behind Victor's denunciation, which eventually leads to the shooting with Oscar's death.

Linda becomes pregnant and loses her job as a dancer. She lets the child, who is believed to be Mario's, have an abortion . Alex is initially forced to live in hiding on the street after Oscar's dealer Bruno has the drug ring blown up. Linda wishes that she would have preferred Alex instead of Mario, as Oscar would have liked. Linda wishes that Oscar would live again. Oscar's body is cremated.

Victor starts a family argument because his mother had sex with his friend Oscar. He is then thrown out of home. He pays Linda a visit to apologize for her brother's death. However, when Victor blames Linda for complicity in Oscar's death, she goes into a fit of rage and chases Victor away by saying that he should kill himself.

Oscar's ghost hovers over Tokyo and lands on a plane. Inside is a mother who is breastfeeding an infant that she calls Oscar. Linda and Alex take a taxi to the Tokyo Love Hotel , where they have sex. Oscar's mind moves between several rooms in the hotel, where he can watch many other couples having sex in different positions. Flashes of light twitch around their genitals in every couple. An incestuous motif can be seen while Oscar observes the sex from Alex's perspective. Finally, there is a vaginoscopic look into Linda's vagina during the sexual act, followed by ejaculation and the fertilization of the egg cell. A birth can be seen later. The film leaves open whether it is Oscar's own birth or whether Oscar will be reborn by Linda.

Reviews

Daniel Kasman of theauteurs.com calls the film "bold but lifeless, vibrant and grim". Eugene Hernandez from Indiewire describes the more than 160 minutes long film as a “true endurance test”, but admits that Enter the Void is a fascinating cinematographic experience and one of the most amazing films ever.

Screen International's Mike Goodridge describes Enter the Void as a "wild and hallucinatory adult mindfuck" that has what it takes to become a cult film. Enter the Void received the award for best film at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2010 .

Others

According to the director himself, the idea for the film came after he watched the Raymond Chandler film Die Dame im See (1947) by Robert Montgomery , which is also told in subjective settings , under the influence of magic mushrooms .

The production of the visual effects in the film took one and a half years in collaboration with the BUF Compagnie . A preview version was shown at the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival .

Soundtrack

The title song "Freak" comes from the band LFO . In the opening credits, Thomas Bangalter is listed as "Sound Effects Director". The soundtrack comes from artists such as Carl Michael von Hausswolff , David Lumsdaine , Delia Derbyshire , Johann Sebastian Bach and Alvin Lucier, among others .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Enter the Void . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 807 K).
  2. ↑ Enter the Void (2009) | Review: Kino , OutNow.ch, accessed on February 8, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b Enter the Void , kino-zeit.de, accessed on February 8, 2010.
  4. ↑ Enter the Void: 2010, Odyssey in Tokyo tagesspiegel.de
  5. ↑ Soundtracks for Enter the Void at Imdb.com.

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