Take a hit of this and Enter The Void: a review of Gaspar Noe's film

Take a hit of this and Enter The Void: a review of Gaspar Noe's film

Irreversible Director Gaspar Noe's 2009 film Enter The Void is an acid trip set in Tokyo about a drug dealer named Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) whose immortal soul reviews all of his decisions prior to being set up by his best friend and killed by the cops in a drug sting.  This is one of those movies you have to see twice-- once to let it dazzle you, and a second time to think about it. The plot is somewhat based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead which the main character references in the film. This film assaults you from the ferociously colorful title sequence and all throughout.  This is the ugliest, most depressing, saddest, and yet the most beautiful film I've seen. Paz de la Huerta as Oscar's little sister Linda gives a skin-peeling performance as a stripper who's manipulated for sex by an emotionally detached pimp. This is a love or hate film but Noe really outdid himself. This film will be talked about for years to come and I rank it up there, visually, with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not for the squeamish, though.