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Enter the Void

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Enter the Void	label	Enter the Void
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Enter the Void	comment	Enter the Void is an experimental art drama film co-written and directed by Gaspar Noé, with Noé summarizing it as a "psychedelic melodrama". The entire film is seen through the Unbroken First-Person Perspective of its protagonist through strict point-of-view shots, including momentary blackouts to represent blinking and extended hallucinatory sequences.A rough cut of the film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, with the post-production required of the film delaying its wide release in France to a year later, with Germany and Italy receiving further releases across 2010 and 2011.The film opens with Oscar, a young American man, living in Tokyo and supporting himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his sister Linda and his friend Alex, who attempts to turn Oscar toward spirituality with The Tibetan Book of the Dead. When he and Oscar leave to deliver drugs to Oscar's friend Victor, Alex explains parts of The Tibetan Book of the Dead aloud to Oscar along the way — namely how the spirit of a dead person sometimes will stay among the living until it begins to experience nightmares, after which it will attempt to reincarnate. Just as the two get to sit down at a bar, the police come to swarm the place. Oscar is chased down into the washroom stalls, where he desperately tries to flush away his incriminating drugs.He gets shot.As his spirit rises from his body and watches over the events that follow, the audience views everything from his perspective, from the aftermaths of his loved ones' lives to dreams that unveil aspects of his past.Enter the Void was a long-time passion project for Noé, synthesizing a number of things he had grown fascinated by in his early life — themes of death, existence, and the afterlife alongside aesthetics of psychedelia and surrealism. His failed initial attempts at getting sufficient funding for the film inspired the creation of Irréversible, which he retrospectively considered a "bank robbery" to finance Enter the Void, as well as a helpful technical exercise.
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Enter the Void / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
Enter the Void / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: During The Oner, when Alex and Oscar walk from Oscar's place to The Void.
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Enter the Void / int_1915143f	type	Epileptic Flashing Lights
Enter the Void / int_1915143f	comment	Epileptic Flashing Lights: You will not want to see this film if you have photosensitive epilepsy. The opening credits are essentially two full minutes of seizure-inducing strobing. Shortly after Oscar dies, his soul floats up into the lightbulb above the toilet, where the entire screen flickers whitish-yellow for 90 full seconds. Oscar's sister having sex with a strip club owner and subsequently getting the call about Oscar's death starts with regular lighting but quietly transitions into full-on red/blue strobing over the course of the scene's 9 minutes. As Oscar's journey continues, his perspective incorporates more and more time-altering strobes, which have a similar effect to X-Ray Vision. This goes without mentioning the Japanese street signs and strobing club lights that pervade the film. Even ordinary lightbulbs flicker with varying intensities.
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Enter the Void / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Enter the Void / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Oscar is very much a straight man throughout the film, and when he raises his voice, you know it's serious.
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Enter the Void / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Enter the Void / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: Victor initially had this in mind when he turned on Oscar but quickly realizes it was Disproportionate Retribution.
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Enter the Void / int_20ccd946	type	Neon City
Enter the Void / int_20ccd946	comment	Neon City: The film takes place almost entirely at night in Tokyo, the ever-present neon lighting adding to the film's disorienting and hallucinogenic themes.
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Enter the Void / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Enter the Void / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: As expected from Gasper Noé. The film is dark, everyone ends up dead or broken, and nothing seems to have gotten better by the end of the film.
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Enter the Void / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Enter the Void / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: It definitely comes across as some sort of successor to 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring the same kind of exploratory existentialism and drawn-out, trippy sequences. It's even harder to sit through due to the addition of general human degeneracy and psychosexual issues, however.
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Enter the Void / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
Enter the Void / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: Deconstructed. It is implied that after the car crash that killed their parents, Oscar and Linda are initially being taken care of by their (implied to be paternal) grandparents, but since they're just too old to take care of kids any longer, Oscar and Linda are forcibly split up and moved into different foster families.
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Enter the Void / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Enter the Void / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Oscar's supplier of DMT in Tokyo is apparently fond of getting some rather young-looking men hooked on drugs while he takes advantage of them (Alex warns Oscar not to drink or smoke anything he offers). However, he's later seen enjoying an orgy that includes several women.
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Enter the Void / int_30e222a1	type	Censor Steam
Enter the Void / int_30e222a1	comment	Censor Steam: Every sexual act in the Love Hotel is somewhat obscured by glowing, smokey energy waves around the genitalia.
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Enter the Void / int_3283f169	type	Coming and Going
Enter the Void / int_3283f169	comment	Coming and Going: The juxtaposition of Oscar's death while his sister was having sex with the club owner.
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Enter the Void / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Enter the Void / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Oscar in the bathroom stall.
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Enter the Void / int_340575a7	type	Girl on Girl Is Hot
Enter the Void / int_340575a7	comment	Girl on Girl Is Hot: The director treats us to a girl-on-girl scene with Linda and her friend.
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Enter the Void / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
Enter the Void / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Oscar is lured into a club with cops waiting nearby by Victor.
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Enter the Void / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Enter the Void / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Victor tries to lay some of the blame on Linda for Oscar's death because she always hung around creeps. Linda angrily tells Victor to kill himself.
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Enter the Void / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Enter the Void / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Both parents die in a car crash.
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Enter the Void / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Enter the Void / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: A meaningful cut from a young Oscar watching his parents have sex to him watching Alex having sex with a random woman implies that he sees his friend as something of a father figure albeit one whose advice he often ignores. Depending on how you view the ending, Alex possibly becomes Oscar's father for real.
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Enter the Void / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
Enter the Void / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: It is implied that Oscar gets reborn as his sister's son. See Gainax Ending.
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Enter the Void / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
Enter the Void / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: While Oscar is dying, he breathes heavily.
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Enter the Void / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Enter the Void / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: At one point, the camera flies out of a window up into a plane, then all the way back down and into a taxi cab.
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Enter the Void / int_4db42cf3	type	Male Frontal Nudity
Enter the Void / int_4db42cf3	comment	Male Frontal Nudity: The nightclub owner, when dropping his pants to have sex with Linda backstage.
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Enter the Void / int_50f5dabe	type	Reincarnation
Enter the Void / int_50f5dabe	comment	Reincarnation: The concept of reincarnation is mentioned early on by Alex to Oscar. He explains that according to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, after someone dies their soul may linger around their old surroundings for a period following their death. Oscar is shot by the police not much later and spends most of the movie as a disembodied spirit. At the very end, after witnessing his sister Linda being impregnated, Oscar experiences being born again. The face of the woman is obscured, leaving it ambiguous whether he is reborn as Linda's baby, or whether his first life is just starting over again.
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Enter the Void / int_519c2e3a	type	Trashcan Bonfire
Enter the Void / int_519c2e3a	comment	Trashcan Bonfire: Alex makes one to warm him during the night he spends outside.
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Enter the Void / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Enter the Void / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Oscar and Linda's late mother and father are implied to have around a 10-15 year age gap between them, since he's a somewhat older, well-off guy and she's a bit of a youthful trophy wife. After Oscar and Linda are orphaned and sent to live with their grandparents, who are implied to be their paternal grandparents, they are shown to be much too old to be taking care of kids any longer.
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Enter the Void / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Enter the Void / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends / Title Drop: The film properly begins with the word "ENTER" filling the screen. At the film's very end, the words "THE" and "VOID" are shown in the same manner.
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Enter the Void / int_53bb70b2	type	Flashback
Enter the Void / int_53bb70b2	comment	Flash Back: Roughly half the movie consists of flashbacks as Oscar watches his life flash before his eyes.
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Enter the Void / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
Enter the Void / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Alex calls Oscar one while trying to convince him that he's only imagining himself as being alive again.
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Enter the Void / int_57bb7b55	type	Near-Death Clairvoyance
Enter the Void / int_57bb7b55	comment	Near-Death Clairvoyance: Oscar, upon dying, steps out of his body and observes what is happening to other characters in the story at that moment.
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Enter the Void / int_5ff126b7	type	Troubled Fetal Position
Enter the Void / int_5ff126b7	comment	Troubled Fetal Position: Done by Linda throughout the film, most notably when she first gets the news about Oscar's death.
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Enter the Void / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Enter the Void / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: There are very strong Oedipal implications with Oscar and his mother, who died in a car crash along with his father when he and his sister were kids. In at least one flashback Oscar spies on his parents while they're in the bedroom. When he has sex with an older woman in the present, he immediately flashes back to being breastfed. In the climax there's a sex scene involving the same woman; when Oscar flies into the man's head to see things from his POV, she's replaced by his mother.
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Enter the Void / int_62c556bf	type	X-Ray Vision
Enter the Void / int_62c556bf	comment	As Oscar's journey continues, his perspective incorporates more and more time-altering strobes, which have a similar effect to X-Ray Vision.
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Enter the Void / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
Enter the Void / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: Oscar's soul tries this as soon as he dies. It ends up being the light in the bathroom stall where he was shot. He realizes this shortly thereafter.
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Enter the Void / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Enter the Void / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: Oscar's POV takes this form, particularly after his death as he "chases" Alex through the streets.
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Enter the Void / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Enter the Void / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Oscar has one for his sister. Tragically, he starts dealing drugs in order to raise money for Linda to come and live with him in Japan.
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Enter the Void / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
Enter the Void / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: Despite his problems, Oscar promised he would always be there for Linda no matter what. And if he is indeed reincarnated into Linda and Alex's baby at the end, he definitely has made good on his word.
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Enter the Void / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Enter the Void / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The barely visible astral cloud in the bathroom light bulb is shown repeatedly in a variety of ways throughout the film and finally gets an explanation at the end of the film: it's reincarnation itself. Or just semen. As we go through Oscar's life story, we end up reaching the point that Oscar starts at the beginning of the movie, and it follows through up to his death.
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Enter the Void / int_759b4c29	type	Flush the Evidence
Enter the Void / int_759b4c29	comment	Flush the Evidence: The police start raiding the place, and Oscar heads for the toilet to flush down the drugs on him. A disgusting scene of him shoving the pills down the drain ensues.
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Enter the Void / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Enter the Void / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Heavily implied to be the case between Oscar and his sister since he watches her sleep (in the nude no less) and is repeatedly shown watching her dance in the strip club. There are also several instances where she kisses him and it's a little more than a peck on the cheek. And then there's the scene where Linda leans against a wall in a suggestive pose and asks Oscar if he sees her as a woman. Aside from that, Oscar flies into the bodies of her lovers while she has sex with them, watching the act from their POVs. He even flies inside of her at the climax and we get an inside view of her vagina during intercourse. Adding an extra layer of discomfort is the possibility that he's thinking of her as his mother through all this.
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Enter the Void / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Enter the Void / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Subverted. We know what Oscar looks like because he looks at himself in the mirror at the start of the film, but during all of the flashbacks, the camera is always behind him, showing only his shoulders and the back of his head to the audience.
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Enter the Void / int_7b2e8f85	type	Depth of Field
Enter the Void / int_7b2e8f85	comment	Depth of Field: Oscar's POV sometimes has this effect.
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Enter the Void / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Enter the Void / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Victor is arrested by the police after the botched arrest of Alex, is disavowed by his contemporaries in the drug trade, has his apology rejected by Linda, gets thrown out of his own home by his parents, and is last seen giving blowjobs in a love hotel to get by.
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Enter the Void / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Enter the Void / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: As one can gather from this page, the ending has a lot of interpretations. After graphically showing Linda's vagina being filled with semen and a sperm cell fertilizing her ovum, the film cuts to Oscar being born. The P.O.V. Cam at this point is justifiably entirely blurry, so the identity of the mother (either Oscar's actual mother or Linda) is unknowable. Of course, it may be All Just a Dream, as Oscar was high on DMT when he got shot and could have been imagining the last two hours of the film.
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Enter the Void / int_82e4ab4a	type	Unbroken First-Person Perspective
Enter the Void / int_82e4ab4a	comment	Unbroken First-Person Perspective: The entire film is from Oscar's perspective, but in non-chronological order and using different styles of POV shots. Specifically, the first one from the opening scenes is shown directly from his eyes so that we even see the movement of his eyelids; a second POV is from Oscar's disembodied spirit as he flies around Tokyo observing the events around him; and a third POV shot with the back of his head in view, used only in flashbacks. Since these third-person shots are from flashbacks, the camera stays on his point of view, making a case of using both first and third-person shots at the same time.
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Enter the Void / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Enter the Void / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Linda receives an abortion after getting pregnant by her boss, a seedy strip club owner. Linda is emotionally damaged and living a dangerous lifestyle, and her abortion plays into that.
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Enter the Void / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Enter the Void / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: It's implied that Oscar isn't just seeing their POV but is actually possessing the bodies of the various people whose heads he flies into throughout the film, including his sister's lovers.
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Enter the Void / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Enter the Void / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Oscar and Linda's parents appear rather prominently in multiple flashbacks, but they're both long dead in the present after dying in a car crash.
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Enter the Void / int_8b5df221	type	Surprise Car Crash
Enter the Void / int_8b5df221	comment	Surprise Car Crash: We see a flashback to the sudden and fatal car crash that made the protagonist and his sister Conveniently an Orphan, when the family car is hit by a truck in a car tunnel. It's made even more jarring because the entire segment leading up to this was a whimsical family memory, with sweet lullaby music right up until the truck comes barreling out of nowhere.
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Enter the Void / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Enter the Void / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Oscar flashes back and forth from his past to the present.
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Enter the Void / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Enter the Void / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Alex during the Walk and Talk scene from Oscar's home to The Voice, dropping Info Dumps about the Tibetan Book of the Dead which later becomes a reality for Oscar.
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Enter the Void / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Enter the Void / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: The events that Oscar perceives after being shot are loosely based on his reading of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
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Enter the Void / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Enter the Void / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Oscar doesn't believe that he's doing anything wrong by dealing drugs (because he never personally hurts anybody) and spends his last living moments putting the blame squarely on the police when he was the one who was threatening to shoot them with his non-existent gun.
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Enter the Void / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
Enter the Void / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: Oscar's childhood flashbacks show he was closer to his mother than his father and while he might not necessarily want her in that way, there are multiple instances implying he has some sexual hang-ups revolving around her stemming from that closeness (such as how they're shown taking baths together with her naked chest being prominently shown, or how he has sex with his friend's mother with little issue).
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Enter the Void / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Enter the Void / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: A subtle version. Noé has said that every shot in the film was augmented by CGI. Additionally, the film features a multitude of seamlessly blended helicopter, crane, CG and handheld tracking shots.
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Enter the Void / int_9afd34de	type	Slow Clap
Enter the Void / int_9afd34de	comment	Slow Clap: The strip club owner applauds Linda backstage this way after her first strip show in the movie.
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Enter the Void / int_9e67ec50	type	Flashback Cut
Enter the Void / int_9e67ec50	comment	Flashback Cut: Integrated seamlessly into the narrative: not only does every cut find an analog with another event in Oscar's life, but the cuts themselves happen in the same manner that the blinking does in the P.O.V. Cam of the first act of the film.
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Enter the Void / int_9f4bec33	type	Destroy the Evidence
Enter the Void / int_9f4bec33	comment	Destroy the Evidence: Oscar tries to get rid of the drugs in the club's toilet but the flush doesn't work. So he uses his hands to push the pills down the drain. Linda burns Oscar's remaining drugs in a bucket so the police won't find them.
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Enter the Void / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Enter the Void / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: How Victor's father evicts Oscar from their home.
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Enter the Void / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Enter the Void / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Bach's "Air on a G String" comes up repeatedly in moments related to Oscar and his sister.
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Enter the Void / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Enter the Void / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The psychedelic colors and extreme experience of it all reflects upon Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Enter the Void / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Enter the Void / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Victor has this realization after the coup with the cops goes awry.
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Enter the Void / int_a33b90b2	type	Improv
Enter the Void / int_a33b90b2	comment	Improv: Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. Gaspar Noé stated that, as he didn't understand English very much, he needed someone to tell him if what the cast was saying sounded good or not.
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Enter the Void / int_a484ef6c	type	Sensory Abuse
Enter the Void / int_a484ef6c	comment	Sensory Abuse: Aside from the Epileptic Flashing Lights listed above, various sounds also play a role in the movie's tone. The ambient score assembled by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter incorporates excerpts from two musique concrète albums by electroacoustic composer Jean-Claude Éloy, which certainly employ this trope as part of their composition by layering field recordings of Tokyo nightlife on top of "electronic and concrete sounds."
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Enter the Void / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Enter the Void / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Oscar "enters the void" by going into a club called "The Void" and dying.
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Enter the Void / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Enter the Void / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The happy scenes and lullaby version of Bach's "Air on a G String" that occurs right before Oscar's parents die in a car crash. Twice. Oscar (maybe) being reborn to a beautiful woman is a warm and tender moment that is immediately followed by the medical staff cutting his umbilical chord, taking him away from her, and putting him on a separate bed despite his wailing.
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Enter the Void / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Enter the Void / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Victor's mom cheats on her husband with Oscar and said affair is the reason Victor turns Oscar to the cops and eventually gets him killed. While Victor is kicked out of his house by his parents, his mom gets no punishment despite her role in the whole mess, except for the pain of losing Oscar.
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Enter the Void / int_aa809887	type	Blipvert
Enter the Void / int_aa809887	comment	Blipvert: The opening credits. Noé made the credits in this style since the film was nearly three hours and he wanted to get through "as fast as possible and as graphic as possible." Quentin Tarantino even called those the best opening credits in a movie ever.
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Enter the Void / int_ab0e59e6	type	And Your Reward Is Infancy
Enter the Void / int_ab0e59e6	comment	And Your Reward Is Infancy: The ending — assuming it wasn't all a Dying Dream.
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Enter the Void / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
Enter the Void / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Used extensively in the first 25 minutes or so of the film. Even Oscar's eye blinks are represented. But after Oscar is killed, the film is mostly shot from behind a character's head or from a top-down perspective.
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Enter the Void / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Enter the Void / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Linda, and how. The stripper dances and sex scenes are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Enter the Void / int_b2af79fb	type	Leave the Camera Running
Enter the Void / int_b2af79fb	comment	Leave the Camera Running: Lots of very long takes in the film.
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Enter the Void / int_b532f68b	type	Everybody Has Lots of Sex
Enter the Void / int_b532f68b	comment	Everybody Has Lots of Sex: The climax (no pun intended) of the film involves Oscar floating through a Love Motel witnessing several acts, including his sister having very explicit sex with Alex. Additionally, almost every main character has an affair or a lover.
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Enter the Void / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Enter the Void / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Oscar yelling "I have a gun" while the cops have him cornered in a bathroom during a drug raid wasn't the best idea.
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Enter the Void / int_b90ddf3c	type	Perverted Sniffing
Enter the Void / int_b90ddf3c	comment	Perverted Sniffing: We see Oscar sniffing his sister's discarded panty.
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Enter the Void / int_b983a56b	type	Came Back Wrong
Enter the Void / int_b983a56b	comment	Came Back Wrong: Linda has a nightmare in which this happens to Oscar.
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Enter the Void / int_bdc453a0	type	Incest Subtext
Enter the Void / int_bdc453a0	comment	Incest Subtext: Like with Gaspar Noe's other works, incest is a strong theme in the film, tying into concepts such as rebirth and reincarnation. Oscar's relationship with his sister Linda is disturbingly affectionate, though whether or not they actually have had sex together is never quite confirmed. It's also pretty blatant that Oscar has a thing for his deceased mother.
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Enter the Void / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Enter the Void / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Both Oscar and Linda. Flashbacks to their youth show them just being two carefree kids, but then seeing both their parents get killed in a horrible car crash and sent to live in different foster homes clearly messed them up, where one is now a drug dealer and the other a stripper.
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Enter the Void / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Enter the Void / int_bef696dd	comment	The barely visible astral cloud in the bathroom light bulb is shown repeatedly in a variety of ways throughout the film and finally gets an explanation at the end of the film: it's reincarnation itself. Or just semen.
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Enter the Void / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Enter the Void / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: The car crash. Notable in that the exact same camera angle (a POV from the back seat) is used three times.
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Enter the Void / int_c1e6f5bd	type	Don't Split Us Up
Enter the Void / int_c1e6f5bd	comment	Don't Split Us Up: When Oscar and Linda are separated as kids, Linda doesn't take it so well.
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Enter the Void / int_c3ae004a	type	Re-Cut
Enter the Void / int_c3ae004a	comment	Re-Cut: Noé recut the film himself for the United States and the United Kingdom by effectively removing the seventh reel (out of nine) of footage. This cuts the film's run time from 161 minutes to 137, by removing "some astro-visions, an orgy scene with Linda and the Japanese girl, [and] the scene where you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes." In a positive example of this trope, Noé mentioned that the removal of this footage has no impact whatsoever on the narrative and that it was a contractual obligation with the film's investors to have an alternate edit ready if the film went longer than 140 minutes. Both cuts are packaged together on the DVD and Blu-ray.
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Enter the Void / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Enter the Void / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The top-down camera shots are an homage to Brian De Palma's use of the same technique in the film Snake Eyes. The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources collected by Thomas Bangalternote Noé really wanted him to compose the film's score, but Disney already tapped Daft Punk for the soundtrack of TRON: Legacy at the same time; this was their compromise. in a way that is reminiscent of "Revolution 9".
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Enter the Void / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
Enter the Void / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Oscar was planning to stop dealing drugs just before he died.
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Enter the Void / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Enter the Void / int_cc4b45f6	comment	According to Word of God, the whole movie is the result of Oscar hallucinating during his final moments because of being high on drugs.
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Enter the Void / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Enter the Void / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Mario deals drugs, runs a strip joint, and sometimes tries to cheat on Linda, but never forces himself on women and is genuinely concerned for her wellbeing.
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Enter the Void / int_d013cd12	type	Lovable Rogue
Enter the Void / int_d013cd12	comment	Lovable Rogue: Alex, who is a rather personable and intelligent junkie that repeatedly tries to beg Oscar to pursue more legitimate pursuits and to take care of his sister to no avail.
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Enter the Void / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Enter the Void / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Linda, especially after Oscar dies.
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Enter the Void / int_d087a0b6	type	Sex by Proxy
Enter the Void / int_d087a0b6	comment	Sex by Proxy: The main character is killed about 15 minutes into the movie and spends the rest of it as a disembodied spirit. There are numerous occasions where he observes people having sex and flies into their heads to experience it from their point of view.
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Enter the Void / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Enter the Void / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: After Oscar is shot, there's a long shot from his perspective in the waning moments of his life as we hear his heartbeat gradually slowing.
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Enter the Void / int_d38f2bc8	type	Fetal Position Rebirth
Enter the Void / int_d38f2bc8	comment	Fetal Position Rebirth: Yet another explanation for the ending is that Oscar gets reincarnated as his sister's baby.
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Enter the Void / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Enter the Void / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Oscar makes quite a few, leading up to his death.
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Enter the Void / int_e03b1c9b	type	Blood Oath
Enter the Void / int_e03b1c9b	comment	Blood Oath: Oscar and Linda undergo this after the death of their parents. They promise to never separate.
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Enter the Void / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Enter the Void / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Linda insists she isn't one, but she's an all-around immature person who just happens to pursue some very adult pleasures.
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Enter the Void / int_e3a4c481	type	Turncoat
Enter the Void / int_e3a4c481	comment	Turncoat: Victor turns on Oscar, leading to his death.
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Enter the Void / int_e40f6792	type	Design Student's Orgasm
Enter the Void / int_e40f6792	comment	Design Student's Orgasm: The opening credits feature everyone's name in dramatic, colorful logos. When it gets to the cast, every name gets delirious, seizure-inducing animations in all styles imaginable.
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Enter the Void / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
Enter the Void / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	Primal Scene: Twice in the movie we see a flashback of Oscar as a kid as he walks into his parents' bedroom and they're having sex.
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Enter the Void / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
Enter the Void / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: Oscar being woken up by Alex, taking a walk through the streets to The Void and getting busted by the police is all one 16-minute shot, despite being obscured a bit by the blinking of the P.O.V. Cam.
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Enter the Void / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Enter the Void / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: The film simply stops after Oscar is shown being born.
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Enter the Void / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Enter the Void / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: At one point, Oscar wakes up in the morgue and is taken home by Linda and Alex, who are disgusted by his appearance. After a while, Alex tells Oscar to remember that he was cremated. Linda immediately wakes up, saying she had "another dream" about Oscar being alive. Essentially, Oscar flew into Linda's head and watched her own dream along with her. According to Word of God, the whole movie is the result of Oscar hallucinating during his final moments because of being high on drugs.
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Enter the Void / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Enter the Void / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: Several, as transitions from present to childhood, e.g. Oscar and his sister lying in bed as adults, cut to them in the same position as little kids.
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Enter the Void / int_edf68f1a	type	Flash Forward
Enter the Void / int_edf68f1a	comment	Flash Forward: The other half moves forward in time.
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Enter the Void / int_f0f69743	type	Drugs Are Good
Enter the Void / int_f0f69743	comment	Drugs Are Good / Drugs Are Bad: The movie shows both ends of the spectrum, the awesome trippy effects as well as the Crapsack World of a user.
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Enter the Void / int_f792bc7b	type	Dying Dream
Enter the Void / int_f792bc7b	comment	Dying Dream: It's possible it was all just a dream Oscar is having as he dies.
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Enter the Void / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Enter the Void / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Oscar's drug trip which we see from his POV. It's probably one of the more realistic trips shown on film.
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Enter the Void / int_f88600be	type	Higher Understanding Through Drugs
Enter the Void / int_f88600be	comment	Higher Understanding Through Drugs: It's suggested that Alex is drawn to Buddhist theory through the use of psychedelic drugs.
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Enter the Void / int_fa052df3	type	Trippy Finale Syndrome
Enter the Void / int_fa052df3	comment	Trippy Finale Syndrome: Also has a trippy beginning and middle. The finale takes it up a notch though, culminating in Oscar's spirit flying through a maybe-metaphysical space known as the Love Hotel involving basically every character in the movie, culminating with Oscar being reborn after witnessing the impregnation of his sister by his best friend (?).
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Enter the Void / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Enter the Void / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Oscar got one of his old girlfriends and Linda hooked on drugs with the latter falling in with a strip club manager as a direct result.
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Enter the Void / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Enter the Void / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Oscar's DMT-induced drug trip at the start of the film is based on Noé's own experience with the drug.
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