Enter the Void, a Gaspar Noé film, follows the night of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister is a stripper in the nasty underside of Tokyo. Oscar constantly suffers from flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings, and his drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights into something wild and surreal. After being shot by the police in a club (The Void) he can float above the whole city and look down on everything - even life at a moleculer level. Oscar comes to realize that the spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly.

 

 

 

When approaching this project I had the intent to highlight the unusual, psychedelic nature of the film. Oscar floats through the city as if he were in a surreal world, and everything merges together into one. With one of the final scenes being him smoking DMT while staring at a flickering neon sign outside his window, I figured it would be appropriate to bring this in as a key element before he gets shot and enters his dream-like state.