'enter the void' presents us with a kind of 'arthouse' movie experience and also like an american movie made in japan..... saying it was 'shot' in japan would imply it had a bigger budget than it probably did...
in any case, this movie presents us with some interesting things, however it is extremely long, like 3 hours long, now while you may have been able to watch, riveted, the entire 6 hours of astronaut saga 'the right stuff' as a kid, it is unlikely you would want to watch the entire 'enter the void'....... also, some of the soundtrack background music is too annoying and intense
the whole movie is very intense and very psychological
basically, some kind of loser scum american kid is in japan working as a drug dealer, his sister, who, like him, had been orphaned, and then separated from him at an early age, and who has also turned out to be scum -- upon re-uniting with her long lost brother, she becomes a go-go dancer/slut... her loser brother switches her on to drugs too
this movie has a great deal that is original and interesting...... not least of all it's use of shots/shotlisting... such as POV (point of view) shots..... it also features alot of behind the head shots which is uncommon in movies and alot of tracking shots walking from here to there, etc..... and alot of its dialog scenes are well done, however the movie uses too few of them and too many psychological flashback scenes and suchlike that have no dialog at all
it also features an interesting premise which is the journey of the Soul after Death in the event of foul play...... it is said (outside of this movie) that when the Soul goes through 'change' or 'death' - if there has been foul play, the Soul will stay behind and try to alert its loved ones
however, the makers of this film have completely perverted that notion by having the Soul stay behind and do that and also witness its sister having sex, getting an abortion (which means, you, the movie viewer can watch some japanese surgeon stick a long metallic tool inside her hairy vagina - no detail is spared -- not even the sight of the bloody fetus afterwards, not something to watch while you are chowing down)......
at the start of the movie we see, before the male american scum guy is killed, we see his psychedelic drug experiences with the movie's unique POV shots
nevertheless, while it features a lot of annoying soundtrack sounds (also too intense), alot of intense colors in the 'mis-en-scen' (that's miz-on-son with an ossie accent, mind you), and too many graphic scenes, sex and abortion.... this movie does have a lot of interesting elements and is very original --- it is also too long:
the viewer does not feel inclined to watch the ending.... speaking of endings, recent movie review 'the ridge' -- that movie had an unusual ending which spoiled some of the things the modest filmmakers had achieved
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