Enter the Void (2010)

[Drunk Monk]

Dm suspects only a few of DOOM know DMT in the biblical sense as it is a very rare and powerful psychedelic. EtV begins with a big hit of DMT and captures the trip well, although at 2 and a half hours, it's like 5 or 6 times the length of a real DMT trip. It's a challenging film, very harsh and gritty. The psychedelic scenes are well done, all in all, but sometimes the stroboscopics are too intense and at several points, DM had to shield his eyes to avoid going into seizures. What is remarkable is the cinematography. It's shot sometimes from the viewpoint of the DMT tripper, sometimes through his eyes, other times with the back of his head in center frame. Then there's the trippy stuff - it's story centers around the Tibetan Book of the Dead's notion of out-of-body experiences, so it is often shot from a heaven's eye view, or perhaps a hell's eye view is more appropo although it is from above. The camerawork swirls around the rooms, penetrating ceilings and flies from building to building, then dives into lamps, gas stove burners, bullet wounds and vaginas. Oh, there's a lot of gratuitous sex too. Set in Tokyo amidst an overdose of neon, it does capture drug society fairly well at times, but gets very longwinded and caught up in itself (which in a meta-sense, is also quite drug oriented). I'm glad to have seen it, but still deciding if I liked it.