This was a serendipitous find during one of my meanderings through the internets. Well over 3 hours in length, but the cinematography does give some decent representation of hyperspace, chrysanthemums and all! References the Tibetan Book of the Dead, which was something I was intending on exploring. The director definitely was pulling material from personal experience, that is for certain.

What a find this one was. It is officially being release on BluRay tomorrow (1/25/10), and I'm picking up a copy for the archives. One of the trippiest movies I've seen. Unrated, so there are some wtf parts for the normal moviegoer types.

While I wouldn't really call it mainstream, the BluRay will be available at Best Buy...so it's definitely dipping a toe in the mainstream at least.

SPOILER ALERRT!
STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN IT YET!

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So, for those of you who saw it, the most obvious question is was the whole thing a DMT trip or?
Did you find yourself snickering at the beginning when Oscar was smoking the spice wrong and totally burned it? lol. I guess the burning embers of the spice were more for effect.

I thought this movie was great! Very raw and different

The dmt sequences were cool, but not much like dmt imo

im grabbing this for sure!!

SPOILER ALERT!

I almost feel like I wasted a perfectly good night downloading and watching this film.

The opening credits had me expecting something much better and felt more like DMT than the actual movie.
Technically I think it was good, the CGI and camera work was great. That being said I think the DMT trip was lacking or he just burnt the spice and didn't get very far. I kept waiting for it to go farther and really breakthrough but it just ended with the phone ringing.
And no, I don't think the whole thing was a DMT trip. It ended shortly after the phone call and he gets shot and killed later and is basically a ghost for the rest of the movie until he's reborn at the end.

I think this movie really puts DMT in a BAD light, like its just another junkie street drug being bought and sold along with crack and heroin. The whole scene is wrong for DMT; stripper/whores and drug dealers, really?
A little more than half way through I found myself wondering when it will end. Like a bad trip, you just want it to be over soon but it drags on and on.

The story isn't great, the actors weren't that good and the spirituality seems to be a cover for it being a soft porn.

The effects were cool though and I'm going to have to watch it again with a higher quality video.

The movie definitely had some bad trippiness it. But knowing how DMT can dilate time, maybe the director intentionally lengthened the movie to simulate that feeling. I also thought it was a long movie, but the camera work and effects helped to keep my interest.

Sounds like a movie I have to judge for myself. Going to give this a go this weekend probably.

Its a very interesting movie, puts you in a very psychedelic mindset. A bit dark, not something i would enjoy watching ON a psychedelic, worth watching definitely

Thought it doesn't make justice to dmt experience in my opinion, the movie has something for it that worth watching it.
But I emphatize also about it not being hte kind of movie to be watch on psychedelics !

I thought the introduction tripping seen was very well done. Its rare to have such good trip visuals in a movie even if they are a bit innacurate. The movie itself wasn't that great though. It was too long and it was creepy that they main character was so obsessed with his sisters sex life.

I'm a bit skeptical about whether to indulge in this one since after "Irreversible".

I know it's not meant to be quite as dark, but this guy's directing I would liken to being pushed into the middle of a cow field with a bag over my head.

It definitely was an interesting film. Though I didn't really like how it made DMT seem like a part of some seedy underworld, it made it look almost dirty in a way. At parts it seemed to drag on for a while and probably could've been shortened by quite a bit. Overall I liked it a lot; seeing it in the theatre blasted on 2C-E was truly something to behold.

I guess noé wanted us to think that when oscar's mother died he transferred his feelings for her on his sister, and that's why he is "reborn" through her at the end.

Tried to watch the movie three times, and fell asleep every time. It's extremely boring, if you ask me, and the guy is a creep. I am not too sure I am fond of seeing DMT portrayed the way it was, and especially by such a weird character. I don't think I am going to bother ever finishing it, now that I know what actually happens.

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I watched it... the opening scene with the DMT smoke... well it was decent, like everyone else I was hoping for more... the whole movie though, was a waste of time IMHO. After he dies, all it is is about 7 minutes of film and then 5 minutes of GIANT FUCKING BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT that just gave me headaches... the whole "brother kissing sister and sleeping naked thing" ehhhhhh, maybe in japan that might seem fine, I wouldn't know, but it seemed a little "incestual" to me... I agree to me it made DMT look like a street junkies drug, I do however like how they talked about Datura for a bit in the beginning there... totally brought me back to a trip...

Anyways, I'd vote for downloading it, and then watching the beginning until he dies, then if your REALLY interested continue watching it and skipping the stupid scenes (because IMHO there wasn't much storyline behind it, parents die, kid turns into a drug dealer... blah blah) Anyways I rant, I just wanted to see the DMT visuals, and I got caught in because it was like a 3hr long movie.... wish I never watched it -.- Like Passion is a snuff film, Void is a soft core porn.

Yeah i liked it but for a while i to was just waiting for something to happen. There was probably a good hour of floating through walls And i was slightly disappointed at the ending..especially since you could see that sisters-baby-reincarnation thing coming a mile away.

yeah, saw that too, but I think it goes a bit deeper than that.

SPOILER BELOW
If you remember the beginning where his friend was explaining the Book of the Dead to him, and he said something to the effect that after people die, they either can go into the unknown or are shown other choices of what a new life would be like. He said that most people would choose a new life (reincarnate) than to go into the unknown (supposedly the oneness or universal consciousness). So people end up in this endless cycle of birth, death, reincarnation, and are doomed(?) to repeat the cycle until the soul figures it out.

I think he chose to be reincarnated because he promised to never leave his sister (a little cliche, but it is what it is).

Also, I would call this more of experimental film than a typical movie. The director pulled no punches, offered no comic relief, or even tried to have us sympathize with the characters, which typically is an important goal for a narrative. It was so detached, even voyeuristic; but I think that was his intent, as a DMT seems to detach the ego from the soul. It seemed impartial, non-judgmental, as the viewer floats around peeking into other people's lives. Maybe to show there is a constant struggle for humanity to evolve (Book of the Dead, the artist friend, DMT), but is constantly in conflict with its more primitive nature (drugs, sex, pleasure).

This movie is so much more than a DMT trip. No movie will never be able to recreate the visual, psychological and emotional intensity of the psychological experience and so I dont think its fair to compare the two. Also, this movie isnt some promo for DMT or its avid supporters, so I find it interesting that so many people seem disappointed with the representation of DMT in the movie, as if it is somehow failing the DMT cause. Sure this film features drugs and drug use with some trippy visuals, but it also features, for instance, the city of Tokyo without it being a dominating feature. Both drugs and Tokyo serve merely as setting, a brooding backdrop against which the central character unravels in life and ultimately in death. This is a complex film with an undulating narrative, but essentially the contextual themes are sex and death (oh so very French, of course), not drugs or DMT.

Just my twopenniesworth is all.

I would agree completely after drinking some caapi with friend and gf and taking a hit of L, we sat and watched it, not the best idea, like if anyone has watched it under the influence of a psychedelic you would know, there were some parts that throw you off into a mind trip, maybe because some scenes were either repeated, or similar in a way and it deff messes with your mind.

For example the scene of the car accident were his parents are killed really messed with my mind, dark movie for sure, there were also scenes were there was no picture just flashing white screen or red i think, at the time my friend had believed that there was hidden messages in the screen and a bunch of other crazy non sense.

I really like how the movie was based on the book of the dead, if anyone has not seen the video for the Tibetan book of the dead i would suggest finding it or renting it from netflix.

Yea i think this movie is great for the visual recreation, it may not be exact, but i agree this is deff not based around dmt it just happens to be involved, this movie is about the void.

I thuoght the movie was also good concept, the camera angles going from building to building displaying different story's was interesting, but yerr it did drag on 4 quite abit, the ending was nice.