You stormed off to scar the armada

One of the biggest disappointments of my life, this movie written and directed by Gaspar Noè, a director that I loved. Enter the Void sucks on a level that is incredible, but especially sucks for being - and I would have never imagined saying this of any movie - too long. Almost three hours of nothing.

And the beginning is so good!!! The movie opens with Oscar, played by debutant Nathaniel Brown, who after talking to his sister who is now going to the workplace, a nightclub, is now having a trip in his apartment in Tokio. He has visions, which are shot in wonderful grafics. We are captured. Then he goes out with a friend, Alex to meet a friend that wants some drug he has, and the scene is shot without cuts, with the camera following him from behind.

Long story short, though: he gets shot by the police, dies and so the movie, which from now on will be enrolled in itself, showing nothing interesting, apart from gratuitous sex scenes (during a blowjob scene, we notice that his cock is completely hidden by light - if the movie hadn’t managed to bore the shit out of us we would be interested to know if the blowjob scene is real, but we ARE bored, so we don’t care) 

The scenes that follow are too many and incomprehensible for the most part: the flashback with Alex shot from behind explain his story and his sister’s Linda (Paz de La Huerta who will spend most time of the movie either with her tits out, or snuffing coke) and they really say something, but then there are relentlessly uninteresting and unconnected scenes that first enraged me, then bored the hell out of me.

Why? Because there is nothing that I’m watching. We are headed nowhere. For two hours and a half there is nothing to notice, apart from Gaspar Noè’s great technical knowledge, useless in this case because nothing’s being said. But in the last scenes, everything happens.

Linda, the sister, impregnated by Mario, a Japanese pimp, has naturally an abortion, fucks Alex, has a baby with him (and we see their many uninteresting copulation, with his balls that bounce everywhere) and then they die the way their parents did, in a car accident. 

Up in the sky, there is another family, with a girl called Linda and a boy called Oscar.

You see, this is a wonderful scene, which would make for a wonderful movie if it didn’t pass an hour and half before we actually get to see the point. And this ruins everything.

Rating: 3

Written and directed by Gaspar Noè, also co-producer

Actors: Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (and her T&A)

Year: 2009

Duration: 154 minutes

Genre: drama, erotic, porn, sci-fi

Yesterday it wasn’t a good day for movies. I really had no luck. I watched A Serbian Film at midday, on my tv, and I remember the excitement, because I really wanted to see to see this movie. not that I thought it could have ended up being a masterpiece, but you know, I was optimistic. I will post of the other movie as soon as possible. 

Shit. That’s the fist word that I could use to describe the movie. But also violent, really violent. Violence if appropriated enhances the value of a movie; but when it is simply shoved to your face, top off with all these theoretical and politically-charged speeches by the director, like “this represents the rape that our Serbian government has done to us”, well, the result is horrible, enraging and embarassing if watched in company. Which didn’t happen, thanks to God. 

A Serbian Film talks about a former pornstar, Milos, that comes back to work because Vilmur, a former psychologist has assured him he will do something artistic. Milos agrees because he also has no money and has a family with a super hot horny wife and a blonde kid. But he must not ask nor know what he will be doing. Milos may be the only porn actor to have had a university degree, but he’s fucking stupid nonetheless. He buys into what the creepy guy tells him, looks at the creepy crew but does nothing, and the all chaos breaks loose.

He will be fucked up with drugs and everything, orally rape a woman with the daughter watching, get his penis bitten (with still the daughter smiling at what apparently her mom knows how to do best), anally rape the same woman and then behead her, but when Vilmur, overly-assured by his myth Milos’ stupidity, shows him a video in which the classical badass bald guy orally rapes a baby tha has just come outside his mother’ cunt (we also watch that wonderful procedure), he finally leaves. 

When Vilmur screams joyfully: “Newborn Porn!!!” we would fucking leave, too. I doubt the Serbian government has ever done something like this. The director has described the violence as necessary to make us understand what the country has supposedly being experiencing, but what he says is bullshit, for these reasons: 

1) The staments would be honest and right if the violence were either merely psychological, or controlled. Fuck the “newborn porn”, for Christ’s sake! The rape scenes can stay, but the violence has to be suggested by concealing it, at least partially. In this way, and this way only, the goal can be reached. 

2) Because violence has sometimes to be limited, we don’t need saying anything, even if there were no goal, or any artistic meaning, there is no reason in the world to come up with such violence.

Uncountable are the nudes, the pretty girls that stay naked for most of the time, the porn scenes that pay no reference to the supposed artistic merit of the movie.

Anyways, the human anger and disdain that are so relentlessly pictured make for depth in the movie, with the horrible betrayal of Milos’ brother or his former colleague who now informs us she fucks animals (thank you, I really wanted to know) but this depth is ruined by the incredible excessive violence of the movie. There is style, there is a goal, but the movie becomes boring, too. We understand that everything can happen.

Vote: 3

Director: Srdan Spasojevic

Screenplay: Srdan Spasojevic with Aleksandr Radivojevic

Genre: horror, erotic, porn, drama, thriller

Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes