Enter The Void - Newest film by Gaspar Noé
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Enter The Void - Newest film by Gaspar Noé
Opening credits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxgi-PiNFE
First teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHQWTs7UEY
"A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan, after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister."
I can't wait for this film. It's painful not to be able to watch it right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxgi-PiNFE
First teaser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyHQWTs7UEY
"A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan, after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister."
I can't wait for this film. It's painful not to be able to watch it right now.
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This looks pretty good.
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If the rest of the film is like the opening credits, this film may be one that pushes the boundaries of what is perceived as film.
AVATAR-- Hedy Lamarr: actor, inventor of spread spectrum communications technology, and main villain of Blazing Saddles.
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I'm glad I don't have epilepsy, because those opening credits would have given me a seizure.
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-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
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I'm glad I'm not a man, because those opening credits would have given me a boner.
AVATAR-- Hedy Lamarr: actor, inventor of spread spectrum communications technology, and main villain of Blazing Saddles.
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine. --Billy Mays
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine. --Billy Mays
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Noe's Irreversible was quite disturbing. I'm interested to see what he does with this.
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^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
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I've heard only great things about this film. It's apparently all filmed from the POV of the lead protagonist (so you're always looking out his eyes). Only catch is:
Should be powerful stuff. His IRREVERSIBLE was one of the most gut wrenching and effective films of the past decade.
SPOILER: Show
he dies at the end of the first act.
Should be powerful stuff. His IRREVERSIBLE was one of the most gut wrenching and effective films of the past decade.
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Ive never heard of Gaspar Noe before today, but seeing THAT makes me want to drop to me knees and offer my body to him for whatever sick desires he may have.
"Now, from Nature we obtain abundant information about ourselves, and precious little about others. About the woman you clasp in your arms, can you say with certainty that she does not feign pleasure? About the woman you mistreat, are you quite sure that from abuse she does not derive some obscure and lascivious satisfaction? Let us confine ourselves to simple evidence: through thoughtfulness, gentleness, concern for the feelings of others we saddle our own pleasure with restrictions, and make this sacrifice to obtain a doubtful result." -The Divine Marquis
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"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
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Oz wrote:Like this?
God, I hope there is a Bluray release in the future. Man, it'd be even more brutal.
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Oz wrote:Like this?
Well, I'm sure we can work up to that, but I would prefer for him to be gentle at first. It's my first time. I'm not ready for the kinky stuff.
"Now, from Nature we obtain abundant information about ourselves, and precious little about others. About the woman you clasp in your arms, can you say with certainty that she does not feign pleasure? About the woman you mistreat, are you quite sure that from abuse she does not derive some obscure and lascivious satisfaction? Let us confine ourselves to simple evidence: through thoughtfulness, gentleness, concern for the feelings of others we saddle our own pleasure with restrictions, and make this sacrifice to obtain a doubtful result." -The Divine Marquis
"I agree Hans, but we have talked about those anal fisting analogies." -Werner Herzog
"I agree Hans, but we have talked about those anal fisting analogies." -Werner Herzog
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I saw this yesterday. I was disappointed. I've found it way too long, the content is way too diluted. It's kind of Eraserhead's uneventfulness meets Malick's The Tree of Life's retrospective of a whole existence. Add rainbow neons and boobs and you are done.
In the first 15 minutes or so you get some kind of explanation of the whole thing, so you know what to expect in a way. I guess it's a fine line between spoiling and providing an explanation.
All in all, an interesting way of actualising and showing what happens between death and rebirth according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead in some kind of first person experience. But again, way too long at 160 minutes for the so called "long version" of it.
In the first 15 minutes or so you get some kind of explanation of the whole thing, so you know what to expect in a way. I guess it's a fine line between spoiling and providing an explanation.
All in all, an interesting way of actualising and showing what happens between death and rebirth according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead in some kind of first person experience. But again, way too long at 160 minutes for the so called "long version" of it.
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TBH, I liked this film, but I agree with all your criticisms, Falcon.
That said, if you're going to choose style over substance, Enter the Void is a good choice to make -- it's put together competently, and it certainly has a thematically coherent way of telling the story (even though that story isn't particularly moving, IMO).
On the other hand, I think the story is supposed to essentially be a series of shocking events. It's unoriginal and grating in the way the Oprah book club books about ritual abuse they make you read in high school are -- it's all overwrought and emotionally charged BS, and because the characters aren't well-rounded you end up just feeling manipulated by the author. If he wants to tell this story, at least he's chosen an interesting way to tell it that ultimately masks and makes up for the deficits in the story itself.[/spoiler]
That said, if you're going to choose style over substance, Enter the Void is a good choice to make -- it's put together competently, and it certainly has a thematically coherent way of telling the story (even though that story isn't particularly moving, IMO).
On the other hand, I think the story is supposed to essentially be a series of shocking events.
SPOILER: Show
I mean, the kid's parents die in a car crash, the brother and sister get separated in abusive orphanages, and when they reunite there's an incestuous subtext before they both get deep into drugs and prostitution, then the guy gets killed.
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