Rating: 1.5/5
Noé is to cinema as Palahniuk is to literature. Going in you know what you're going to get, so with Enter the Void running at around 160 minutes I was hoping maybe that he'd finally stopped relying on gimmicks. Turns out he's relying on them even more so than in Irreversible (which I actually love) or I Stand Alone (which is just a good film). I don't understand the cries of this being nothing more than an excuse to shock people...because there's nothing shocking in it. What did people find shocking exactly? The "tripping" scenes that came off as nothing more than a bad screensaver? The close up of an abortion? The laughably stupid melodrama that unfolds as the film progresses? The mundanely unorthodox relationship between the brother and sister?
None of this is shocking so much as it is just plain boring. There were a few moments I felt were handled gracefully, namely the handling of the story of them as children. One big offense is the meaningless recycling of previous scenes. If you're going to do this it has to serve a purpose; Oshima's Three Resurrected Drunkards repeats the entire first 45 minutes of the film almost 100% verbatim and its a fucking masterpiece. This is just 160 minutes of close ups of fluorescent lights, street lights, neon lights and candle light. It isn't shallow, there's something here....if you think there is.
awww, he gets reincarnated, how cute!
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