Gasper Noe makes movies that are difficult to watch,
intentionally choosing some of the most difficult subjects as the centerpieces
of his films. Here he picks a handful of controversial topics (recreational
drug use, incest, police power and authority, abortion, what happens after we
die) and throws them all into a purposefully experimental framework dominated
by a highly unusual, and static, point-of-view that is extremely disorienting
both literally and emotionally. What comes away from it though is perhaps the
opposite kind of narrative presentation from last week’s film, Tree of Life; Enter The Void is not trying to make any
clear statements of morality or even purpose but instead present what it hopes
to be a plausible scenario, though it is not simply the post-mortem astral
projection that is maybe less than completely believable, and ask that the
audience make their own kind of judgments about the action on-screen.
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