Enter The Void -2009- File

Just remember to breathe. Have you survived the Tokyo trip? Or did you turn it off during the title sequence? Let me know in the comments—if you’ve recovered enough to type.

But the movie doesn't end. It begins.

And the lights. My god, the lights.

Noé uses the camera not just to see, but to remember . As Oscar floats toward the light (a recurring, terrifyingly bright white void), his mind flashes back to his childhood, his parents’ death, and the incestuous boundaries of his relationship with his sister. Why is the movie called Enter the Void ? It’s a reference to The Tibetan Book of the Dead , which describes the Bardo —the intermediate state between death and rebirth. enter the void -2009-