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Seginustemple 05/07/21 6:49:12 PM #200:	Enter The Void Damn, this was brutal. I knew about Gaspar Noe's reputation so I kind of expected that but it still surprised me. What starts as a relatively harmless Joe Rogan podcast (Hey bro have you ever tried DMT? You gotta check out the Tibetan Book of the Dead man, it's craaaaaazy stuff) turns into a grim cautionary tale on abusive coping mechanisms. And yet the movie is taking us through the afterlife and reincarnation, which represents a more optimistic worldview than my own. So there's a great beauty to it even while it dwells on a dark life of trauma, suffering, bad decisions. The use of the car crash as a repeated jump scare could be seen as cheap shock value but I think it perfectly illustrates the nature of such a heavy trauma trigger. After the second time the viewer doesn't feel safe any time the characters are in a car, where it could resurface at any moment. It's more effective than the pop-culture version of this scene that I'm familiar with, where Bruce Wayne's parents are killed in glamorized slow-motion and the pearls go flying and sometimes he chooses to reminisce about it when it's convenient. Not to slam Batman movies, it just struck me as a point of contrast to what I'm used to. Actually, several movies came to mind as points of reference. 2001 and The Tree of Life. It's a Wonderful Life meets Reefer Madness. The nightmare to Lost in Translation's daydream. Stylistically there was a lot to love. The title sequence is obviously a winner. The dark vision of Tokyo, the astral plane camerawork, and the long unbroken shots are entrancing. I'm pretty sure there isn't a single cut from when the dude puts down his pipe in his apartment to when he gets shot at the bar. The film really started pushing into greatness territory for me when we started spinning above the warped neon city before the Love Hotel sequence. Though I did have an immature laugh when we got to the inner vagina cam. I wasn't expecting it! I was taking it fully seriously until then but by the time it started doing the sex ed impregnation video my brain was in full Beavis and Butt-head mode. Whoa, he's like, becoming his own nephew! That's cool. Seriously though, I don't know how to feel about that ending. It's played like it might be positive (flash-forwards seem promising) but it feels fundamentally wrong. It's a romantic gesture to follow through on the promise to never leave his sister but the movie shows us not all romantic gestures end up well, like when he brushes the go-go dancer mom's hair and it ends up unraveling that family. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Yes I watched this high, I'm high when I watch all of the movies. Yes I've done DMT, no it's not that crazy. Maybe I'm being a little overcautious about dropping 10/10 ratings, Enter the Void is the closest for me so far but I'd have to sit on it a while before bumping it to a perfect score. The one major flaw is that none of the characters are likable, but that's kind of buffered by the first-person approach allowing the viewer to insert themselves into the cinematic out-of-body experience 9/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc <cite>Seginustemple posted [p:953670749] in Movie Club... [t:79402657]...</cite> <quote>Enter The Void Damn, this was brutal. I knew about Gaspar Noe's reputation so I kind of expected that but it still surprised me. What starts as a relatively harmless Joe Rogan podcast (Hey bro have you ever tried DMT? You gotta check out the Tibetan Book of the Dead man, it's craaaaaazy stuff) turns into a grim cautionary tale on abusive coping mechanisms. And yet the movie is taking us through the afterlife and reincarnation, which represents a more optimistic worldview than my own. So there's a great beauty to it even while it dwells on a dark life of trauma, suffering, bad decisions. The use of the car crash as a repeated jump scare could be seen as cheap shock value but I think it perfectly illustrates the nature of such a heavy trauma trigger. After the second time the viewer doesn't feel safe any time the characters are in a car, where it could resurface at any moment. It's more effective than the pop-culture version of this scene that I'm familiar with, where Bruce Wayne's parents are killed in glamorized slow-motion and the pearls go flying and sometimes he chooses to reminisce about it when it's convenient. Not to slam Batman movies, it just struck me as a point of contrast to what I'm used to. Actually, several movies came to mind as points of reference. 2001 and The Tree of Life. It's a Wonderful Life meets Reefer Madness. The nightmare to Lost in Translation's daydream. Stylistically there was a lot to love. The title sequence is obviously a winner. The dark vision of Tokyo, the astral plane camerawork, and the long unbroken shots are entrancing. I'm pretty sure there isn't a single cut from when the dude puts down his pipe in his apartment to when he gets shot at the bar. The film really started pushing into greatness territory for me when we started spinning above the warped neon city before the Love Hotel sequence. Though I did have an immature laugh when we got to the inner vagina cam. I wasn't expecting it! I was taking it fully seriously until then but by the time it started doing the sex ed impregnation video my brain was in full Beavis and Butt-head mode. Whoa, he's like, becoming his own nephew! That's cool. Seriously though, I don't know how to feel about that ending. It's played like it might be positive (flash-forwards seem promising) but it feels fundamentally wrong. It's a romantic gesture to follow through on the promise to never leave his sister but the movie shows us not all romantic gestures end up well, like when he brushes the go-go dancer mom's hair and it ends up unraveling that family. Maybe I'm overthinking it. Yes I watched this high, I'm high when I watch all of the movies. Yes I've done DMT, no it's not that crazy. Maybe I'm being a little overcautious about dropping 10/10 ratings, Enter the Void is the closest for me so far but I'd have to sit on it a while before bumping it to a perfect score. The one major flaw is that none of the characters are likable, but that's kind of buffered by the first-person approach allowing the viewer to insert themselves into the cinematic out-of-body experience 9/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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