-2009- | Enter The Void

And the lights. My god, the lights.

Noé famously used extreme wide-angle lenses (often 6mm to 8mm) to distort space. Combined with oversaturated neons, constant lens flares, and layered dissolves, the visual language of directly mimics the reported effects of DMT (dimethyltryptamine): time dilation, ego death, and geometric patterns. It is, arguably, the most accurate representation of a psychedelic experience ever committed to film. enter the void -2009-

From this floating, ghost-like perspective, the audience drifts through walls, ceilings, and memories. Oscar revisits his childhood trauma (the death of his parents in a car crash), observes his sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta) spiraling into grief and stripping, and watches his friends attempt to flee the yakuza. The film’s famous tagline—“The most powerful hallucinogen is death”—drives every pulsating, strobe-lit frame. And the lights