Nothingness, no!

Linnea 2022-03-23 09:02:26

The opening shot is weird.

The colorful fantasy of drug addicts travels through time and space. The narrator (brother) or Diandu speaks in a casual and omniscient manner, with various interlude scenes, and the cuts are very thoughtful.

The director seems to be obsessed with using a variety of colors to connect, and also uses a lot of color for monologues. They seem to be a decisive expression. The younger sister even remembered something from her childhood, the shades of gray. Pornography, suicide, drug dealing. (Suddenly remembered that I read the anti-drug flyers when I was a child, don't take drugs out of curiosity)

The film mainly tells the story of a brother and sister who lost their parents in a car accident and depend on each other. And the blood is the covenant that will never be separated. For some reason, her sister was put away for adoption. Brother in this city, no money, love. Terrified, he used drugs to banish it all, LSD. The trauma of childhood was great for him. The birth of his sister made him lose part of his love, and he witnessed the intense sex scenes between his father and his mother when he was a child.

His mother's moaning made him painful and helpless, a strange feeling sprouted in him, loving his mother but couldn't protect her. His feelings for his sister were mixed. I hate her a bit, but as an older brother, I have to protect her and start to love her again when she is an adult. Because her breasts are like the warmth of her mother back then, his most fundamental problem lies in the confusion of beliefs, or in other words, no beliefs, and he is with a group of drug addicts.

When I grew up, my feelings for my sister changed, I started to attach to her, and I remembered the promise to be together forever. He loved his sister's body because he seemed to be back in his mother's arms, and that warm breast was everything. The younger sister also longs for a warm family and complete love, and she has a boyfriend. When my brother found out, of course there was a lot of jealousy. But mixed in her sister's heart is the shadow of her parents' car accident when she was a child. The elder brother was shot and killed in a drug trade. The younger sister did not want to believe this fact and requested an autopsy, but to no avail. Meanwhile, the younger sister finds out in pain that she is pregnant.

Here the director gave an extremely explicit shot of the abortion, where the collision of the instruments made a terrible sound in the woman's body. Whose pain is this? All mankind suffers because it is a deliberate murder. A few shots later, and a close-up of the post-abortion possessions, this blood-red mince is life. After many blows, the sister fell into disappointment. Have fun with a group of girlfriends and indulge your flesh under the illusion of lights. The whole world is still running, and people's joys and sorrows are looming under the colors. The departure of her boyfriend, the disappointment of her relationship, hope that the woman will be full of hope for a new life.

The director seems to deliberately express the nothingness of sex and the birth of a human child. At the end of the film, the sex scene is sanctified and then added to the microscopic display of fertilization. In the woman's moaning, in the colorful city night sky, the seed of nothingness was planted and reborn.
Although the director tried his best to depict the nothingness of one's life, I would like to say no!

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Enter the Void quotes

  • Alex: Basically, when you die your spirit leaves your body, actually at first you can see all your life, like reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ghost, you can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything but you can't communicate. Then you see lights, lights of all different colours, these lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actually like this world so much, that they don't want to be taken away, so the whole thing turns into a bad trip, and the only way out is to get reincarnated.

  • Alex: You know, there is a big difference between taking psychedelics and being a dealer, you know?

    Oscar: I said I'm not a dealer.

    Alex: Man, you're a dealer and you're a motherfucker, man. I can't believe you're fucking that old bitch, you know? You're in Tokyo. There's a lot of fucking cute chicks everywhere, and you're fucking some old bitch. And she's a foreigner as well. At least if you were fucking a Japanese old bitch, you know?

    Oscar: She fucked me.