For those who make it to the end of the movie, you will be greeted with what is perhaps one of the most bizarre and intense angles a camera could take during a sex scene. A sporadically plotted, visually stunning, sexualized and surrealistic phantasmagoria, this movie is perfect for cinephiles looking to wet their feet in the darker fringes of Netflix. Even as he smokes DMT and slips into a psychedelic trance we trip with him and see what he sees. The camera blinks in sync with the character - his thoughts are heard as ubiquitous echoes. The entire movie is shot in first-person from the perspective of the drug dealer. But what makes this movie so captivating and unique is not its narrative or even really its themes it’s the psychedelic cinematography and visual style. Centered around a drug-dealer/DMT-enthusiast living on the electrified avenues of downtown Tokyo, this nearly three-hour rollercoaster of a film can only be described as a visually-provocative treatise on the greed, darkness and perversions of the human condition. All these and more make up the French-directed, American-acted experimental film “Enter the Void.” “Enter the Void” is the brainchild of director Gaspar Noé, a man known for his dark, gritty and sometimes violent style of story-telling.
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