When Oscar, a young American living in Tokyo, is shot and killed in a police raid on a neon-lit nightclub, the people in his life are unavoidably affected. Oscar is, too, as he somehow continues to witness the events following his death from a floating, ghostly vantage. His past and present meld into this unearthly future, the void he enters untethered by time or space. Praised as much for cinematic technique as anything else, Enter the Void does indeed present a complex visual landscape that invites analysis. The character development is surprisingly unique, though, and it's where a lot of the drive of the film stems from. Oscar's "story" strays from the narrative to the meditative, taking in all of life simultaneously and asking "what is this? what does this mean?"; Gaspar Noe's trick is that Oscar's story is our story, and by shooting the film mostly from a pin balling POV perspective, we die when Oscar dies and rise again when Oscar rises. The official trailer offers a mini-Enter the Void, containing many of the surreal, transcendent, epilepsy-inducing elements of the one-of-a-kind movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRxDP--e-Y
