History Film / EnterTheVoid

* BigBadFriend: Victor turns on Oscar, leading to his death.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Heavily implied to be the case between Oscar and his sister since he watches her sleep (in the nude no less) and the fact that he is repeatedly shown watching her dance in the strip club. There are also several instances where she kisses him and it's a little more than a peck on the cheek. Aside from that, [[spoiler: Oscar flies into the bodies of her lovers while she has sex with them, watching the act from their POV's. He even flies inside of her at the climax and we get an inside view of her vagina during intercourse.]]

* CountryMatters: Alex calls Oscar one while [[spoiler: trying to convince Alex that he's only imagining himself as being alive again.]]

* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: It's suggested that Alex is drawn to Bhuddist theory through the use of psychadelic drugs.

* JumpScare: Notable in that the film uses the exact same one three times and each time, it's rather effective.

* MediumBlending: Noé has said that every shot in the film was augmented by CGI. Additionally, the film features a multitude of seamlessly blended helicopter, crane, CG and handheld tracking shots.

* NothingIsScarier

* TheOner: Oscar being woken up by Alex, taking a walk through the streets to The Void and getting busted by the police is all one 16-minute shot, despite being obscured a bit by the blinking of the POVCam.

** The top-down camera shots are an homage to Creator/BrianDePalma's use of the same technique in the film ''{{SnakeEyes}}''.

!!''Enter the Void'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* MsFanservice: Paz de la Huerta, and how. The stripper scenes are just the tip of the iceberg.

* POVCam: Used extensively in the first 25 minutes or so of the film. But after [[spoiler:Oscar is killed the film is mostly shot from behind a characters head or from a top-down perspective.]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: The events which Oscar perceives after being shot is loosely based upon his reading of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

* [[InnerMonologue Stream Of Consciousness]]: As expected form the POV nature of the movie.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Oscar and Linda's parents.
* [[spoiler: DyingDream:]] [[spoiler: It's possible ItWasAllJustADream Oscar is having as he dies.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Victor to Oscar, after [[spoiler: Victor finds out about Oscar's affairs with his mum.]]

** FlashForward: The other half moves forward in time.

* GainaxEnding: As one can gather from this page, the ending has a lot of interpretations. [[spoiler: After graphically showing Linda's vagina being filled with semen and a sperm fertilizing her ovum, the film cuts to Oscar being born. The POVCam at this point is justifiably entirely blurry, so the identity of the mother (either Oscar's actual mother, or Linda) is unknowable. Of course, it may be AllJustADream, as Oscar was high on DMT when he got shot and could have been imagining the last two hours of the film.]]

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: {{Averted}} at first with Linda, who gets one after she's gotten pregnant by the strip club owner early on. {{Played straight}} later on when she gets pregnant by Alex, then [[GainaxEnding apparently]] has a baby at the end [[spoiler:whom Oscar may (or may not) have incarnated into]].

* KickTheDog: {{Played straight}} with Victor, when he tries to [[NeverMyFault lay some of the blame on Linda]] for Oscar's death because she always hung around creeps. {{Subverted}} when Linda, who is definitely not in the best emotional state, angrily tells Victor to go kill himself.

** FridgeBrilliance: As a soul, Oscar recaps his life from the end until the beginning. And in the beginning, there was... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the void.]]

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: At one point, Oscar wakes up in the morgue and is taken home by Linda and Alex, who are disgusted by his appearance. After a while, Alex tells Oscar to remember that he was cremated. Linda immediately wakes up, saying she had "another dream" about Oscar being alive. Essentially, Oscar flew into Linda's head and watched her own dream along with her.]]

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: {{Averted}} at first with Linda, who gets one after she's gotten pregnant by the strip club owner early on. {{Played straight}} later on when she gets pregnant by Alex, then [[GainaxEnding apparently]] has a baby at the end[[spoiler: whom Oscar may (or may not) have incarnated into]].
* {{Homage}}: The psychedelic colors and extreme experience of it all reflects upon [[Creator/StanleyKubrick Kubrick's]] Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.

** The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources by [[Music/DaftPunk Thomas Bangalter]] in a way that is reminiscent of "[[Music/TheBeatles Revolution 9]]".

* DoingItForTheArt: This film is highly visual and was Noé's dream project. The screenplay was in development off and on for fifteen years and finally got funding once ''{{Film/Irreversible}}'' became a success.

* TheFaceless: Subverted. We know what Oscar looks like because he looks at himself in the mirror at the start of the film, but during all of the flashbacks, the camera is always behind him, showing only his shoulders and the back of the head to the audience.

* FlashBack: Roughy half the movie consists of flashbacks as Oscar watches his life flash before his eyes.

* GainaxEnding: As one can gather from this page, the ending has a lot of interpretations. [[spoiler: After graphically showing Linda's vagina being filmed with semen and a sperm fertilizing an ovum, the film cuts to Oscar being born. The POVCam at this point is justifiably entirely blurry, so the identity of the mother (either Oscar's actual mother, or Linda) is unknowable. Of course, it may be AllJustADream, as Oscar was high on DMT when he got shot and could have been imagining the last two hours of the film.]]

* KickTheDog: Played straight with Victor, when he tries to [[NeverMyFault lay some of the blame on Linda]] for Oscar's death because she always hung around creeps. Subverted when Linda, who is definitely not in the best emotional state, angrily tells Victor to go kill himself.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler: The barely visible astral cloud in the bathroom lightbulb is shown repeatedly in a variety of ways throughout the film and finally gets an explanation at the end of the film: it's re-incarnation itself. [[MindScrew Or just semen.]]]]

* ReCut: Noé recut the film himself for the United States and the United Kingdom by effectively removing the seventh reel (out of nine) of footage. This cuts the film's runtime from 161 minutes to 137, by removing "some astro-visions, an orgy scene with Linda and the Japanese girl, [and] the scene where [[spoiler: you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes.]]" In a positive example of this trope, Noé mentioned that the removal of this footage has no impact whatsoever on the narrative and that it was a contractual obligation with the film's investors to have an alternate edit ready if the film went longer than 140 minutes. Both cuts are packaged together on the DVD and blu-ray.

* TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet: Oscar is silent during his trip through, leaving the viewer through a long series of visuals, often with no dialogue.

** The top-down camera shots are an homage to BrianDePalma's use of the same technique in the film ''{{SnakeEyes}}''.

* {{Homage}}: The psychedelic colors and extreme experience of it all reflects upon [[StanleyKubrick Kubrick's]] Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.

* {{Blipvert}}: The opening credits. Noé made the credits in this style since the film was nearly three hours and he wanted to get through "as fast as possible and as graphic as possible." QuentinTarantino even called those the best opening credits to a movie, ever.

* {{Homage}}: The psychedelic colours and extreme experience of it all reflects upon [[StanleyKubrick Kubrick's]] Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey.

* StreamOfConsciousness: As expected form the POV nature of the movie.

** The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources by [[Music/DaftPunk Thomas Bangalter]] in a way that is reminiscent of "[[Music/TheBeatlesRevolution 9]]".

** The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources by Thomas Bangalter of DaftPunk in a way that is reminiscent of "Revolution 9" by TheBeatles.

'''Enter The Void''' is Gaspar Noé's 2009 film. Described by Noé as a "psychedelic melodrama," the film opens with Oscar living in Tokyo, supporting himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his sister Linda and friend Alex. Alex attempts to turn Oscar toward spirituality with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as opposed to drug abuse, which Alex claims will "fry (his) brain". The first act follows Oscar's nightly routine through strict point-of-view shots, including momentary blackouts to represent blinking, and extended sequences of drug-induced hallucination.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: One interpretation of the end, as exemplified by the blinding light.

** FridgeBrilliance: As a soul, Oscar recaps his life from the end till the beginning. And in the beginning, there was... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The void.]]

* CameBackWrong: Linda has a nightmare in which this happens to Oscar.

* DyingDream: It's possible ItWasAllJustADream Oscar is having as he dies.

* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: The climax involves Oscar floating through a Love Motel, witnessing several acts. Additionally, almost every main character has an affair or a lover.

* FetalPositionRebirth: Yet another explanation for the ending is that Oscar gets reincarnated as his sister's baby.

* GainaxEnding: As one can gather from this page, the ending has a lot of interpretations.

* MushroomSamba: Oscar's drug trip which we see form his POV. It's probably one of the more realistic trips shown on film.

* ReCut: Noé recut the film himself for the United States and the United Kingdom by effectively removing the seventh reel (out of nine) of footage. This cuts the film's runtime from 161 minutes to 137, by removing "some astro-visions, an orgy scene with Linda and the Japanese girl, the scene where you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes." In a positive example of this trope, Noé mentioned that the removal of this footage has no impact whatsoever on the narrative and that it was a contractual obligation with the film's investors to have an alternate edit ready if the film went longer than 140 minutes. Both cuts are packaged together on the DVD and blu-ray.

** The top-down camera shots are an homage to BrianDePalma's use of the same technique in the film ''{{SnakeEyes]]''.

'''Enter The Void''' is Gaspar Noe's 2009 film. Described by Noe as a "psychedelic melodrama," the film opens with Oscar living in Tokyo, supporting himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his sister Linda and friend Alex. Alex attempts to turn Oscar toward spirituality with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as opposed to drug abuse, which Alex claims will "fry (his) brain". The first act follows Oscar's nightly routine through strict point-of-view shots, including momentary blackouts to represent blinking, and extended sequences of drug-induced hallucination.

* {{Blipvert}}: The opening credits, entirely. QuentinTarantino even called those the best opening credits to a movie ever.

* [[BrickJoke Brick]] TitleDrop and BookEnds: The second time the movie's title gets shown is by the end of opening credits, and even then, not fully ("ENTER"). But that's not gonna be subverted again until the film's very ''end'', with "THE" and "VOID" being shown again.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Heavily implied to be the case between Oscar and his sister since he watches her sleep (in the nude no less) and there are several instances where she kisses him and it's a little more than a peck on the cheek. Aside from that, [[spoiler: Oscar flies into the bodies of her lovers while she has sex with them, watching the act from their POV's. He even flies inside of her at the climax and we get an inside view of her vagina during intercourse.]]

* CrapsackWorld: As expected from Gasper Noe. The film is dark, everyone ends up dead or broken, and nothing seems to have gotten better by the end of the film.
* DerangedAnimation: There is a lot of CGI animation, although it may not be noticable since all characters are live action.

* DoingItForTheArt: This film is highly visual.

* EpilepticFlashingLights: Drug trips, Japanese neon signs, strobelights in clubs, and a lot of blipvert makes this the sort of movie you don't want to watch if you have epliepsy.

* GoodBadGirl: Linda.
* MindScrew: Drug trips and a spiritual jounrey all from one, single POV is bound to look trippy.
* MindRape: It's possible Oscar possesses various people in the film, including his sister's lover.
* MoodMotif:

* GainaxEnding: As oen can gather from this page, the ending has a lot of interpretations.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Victor initially had this in mind when he turned on Oscar but quickly realizes it was DisporportionateRetribution.

* AnachronisticOrder: Oscar flashes back and forth from his past to the present.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Heavily implied ot be the case between Oscar and his sister since he watches her sleep (in the nude no less) and there are several instances where she kisses him and it's a little more than a peck on the cheek. Aside form that [[spoiler: Oscar flies into the bodies of her lovers while she has sex with them, making it seem as though he is having sex with her. He even flies inside of her at the climax and we see an inside view of her vagina during intercourse.]]

* {{Retirony}}

* StreamOfConsciousness
* TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet
* TragicMistake

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence
* BigBadFriend

* [[spoiler:CessationOfExistence]]
* CrapsackWorld: As expected from Gasper Noe.
* DerangedAnimation
* DepthOfField / FishEyeLens
* DoingItForTheArt
* DroneOfDread
* DyingDream
* EpilepticFlashingLights
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Victor to Oscar, after Victor finds out about Oscar's affairs with his mum.]]
* FetalPositionRebirth
* FlashBack
* GainaxEnding

* MindScrew
* MindRape
* MoodMotif
* MushroomSamba

* PayEvilUntoEvil

* SensoryAbuse

* TrippyFinaleSyndrome
* VaderBreath
* YourCheatingHeart

'''EnterTheVoid''' is Gaspar Noe's 2009 film. Described by Noe as a "psychedelic melodrama," the film opens with Oscar living in Tokyo, supporting himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his sister Linda and friend Alex. Alex attempts to turn Oscar toward spirituality with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as opposed to drug abuse, which Alex claims will "fry (his) brain". The first act follows Oscar's nightly routine through strict point-of-view shots, including momentary blackouts to represent blinking, and extended sequences of drug-induced hallucination.