My verdict is no. Pretty intense, but I kept waiting for the cool twist at the end, which should have gone like this:
As he's floating around he discovers that his death was actually planned by one of the dealers and a couple of crooked cops.
Without this, or without any interesting storyline, this is just a psychedelic depressing movie about death. Yay. Good art, IMO, should always be an affirmation of life.
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Strongly disagree. The movie is one of a kind experience that needs to be viewed under specific conditions. If you don't like it then go back to watching the generic Hollywood "Guardians of the Galaxy" because that's what you seem to prefer. "Enter the Void" is a rare masterpiece meant for an alternative audience. Perfectly ok for you to not like but don't be judging it as "boring" or try to cut the runtime because it's not your cup of tea.
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It looks like a shock value movie.
BTW, 'Guardians' has been one of the FEW good movies to lately come out of Hollywood.
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you CLEARLY have ZERO taste in cinema.
shareGood art, IMO, should always be an affirmation of life.Real art is not didactic or educative, it does not have messages or is used to make people assume a particular point of view about the world. This is not art, this is propaganda. Even if it propagandizes in favour of life. Real art is beyond good and evil, messages, politics, ideologies and conventional morality. Art for art's sake (aestheticism) is the only way to create pure, ideology / religion / politics/ dogmas / ethics / etc etc / free art. Aesthetics rather than ethics, aka beautiful vs ugly rather than good vs evil, are the only tools real art needs.
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You are right in your conclusion but wrong to think that this is against the notion that art should be an affirmation of life. Great art is always an affirmation of life through its beauty as art (since art can only be created by the living).
Noé is an aesthetic catastrophe. He primarily seeks to express contempt for humanity, and often succeeds. This is just the extension of a bankrupt Marxist theory that all art is bourgeois and the artists should assault their audiences. It has no place in the cinema.
Keep watching the masterpieces....
I don't think it is supposed to have traditional suspense.
This is the story of how a dead man perceives the people he was close to after his death.
Instead of shooting it like a regular movie with a familiar plot, this is the observation of life.
The camera work is what's pretty unique. Instead of filming most scenes at eye level, it's filmed as if the protagonist's soul is floating through our physical space. Gravity is suspended, and he's catching glimpses of the lives of his friends and family.
And they're also pretty chaotic lives. It's not like he's watching people eating popcorn in front of their TVs.
His sister is a sex worker in Tokyo, Japan. He himself was killed in a drug raid at a bar in Tokyo. I don't know a lot of people who live like that. But I do know it happens.