Enter the Void
What makes Enter The Void a masterpiece?
Gaspar Noe’s ETV isn’t a movie you’d see very often made. It’s almost unlike anything you’ve ever seen. The opening 30-35 minutes have some of the most breathtaking cinematography I’ve seen and I thought I had seen it all but no it gets better, idk how it was shot, maybe drones, maybe small sets made big with some camera trick but whatever it was, it was trippy, the camera barely stops in this film and it’s almost 3 hours long.
Apart from all this camera work and other technical mastery, this film (so far) is Noe’s most hard hitting and mature film, I think Vortex will be my most favorite of his, can’t wait to see it, but for now this movie outshines everything he’s made. It’s perfect.
After the first act gets over and the “plot” begins, the film takes a lot of time to explain the backstories of the characters, one might call this part boring and it’s understandable upto an extent because some scenes weren’t really needed but as the scenes progress with top quality camerawork and little to no background music, you get uneasy, you feel something insane and trippy is going to happen.
This film deals with life and death for the most part but it also has so many heartfelt brother sister moments which I hadn’t expected from someone like Noe, there are some really strong scenes in the 2nd act that really changed the image of Noe in my mind. I can go on but no one’s reading it anyways so tada.
Edit- I just got to know, fkn cranes were used to film this.