A trip in Japan

Enter the Void (2009)

Can't wrap up the year without reviewing one of the most talked about movies of the year. Saw this earlier this year before I started to update the blog again so it was kinda left out, but it surely deserves to be here so I'll do a bit of a revisit to it even though it's been already a while since I saw it. Can't blame Gaspar Noe for making conventional movies that's for sure. This is no different from his previous visual trickery and unusual story telling, actually even more so than his previous works. The story in itself is quite simple, but the way it's told is something quite fresh. First part of the movie is shot from a point-of-view angle throughout, second part is from a third-person view behind the main character and the third part is from a birds eye perspective. So it's surely not your usual shot compositing. Spice it up with a tripping light flashes and hypnotic visual effects with a fitting soundtrack and you have one wicked movie. But the trickery is also this movies biggest weakness, as it's quite long, the tricks started to repeat themselves too much and got quite boring at times. But if you can get past that, there's a nice story to be found in there. A story you can interpret in quite many ways, depending on your mood at the moment of viewing. So it's brilliant in it's own way, but yet it suffers a bit from repetitive effects and at parts the flying transitions between the scenes were quite pointless waste of time.
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