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The reviews were sharply divided. Variety called it “a daring, nausea-inducing trip that overstays its welcome by at least an hour.” Conversely, The New York Times ’ Manohla Dargis praised it as “a genuine cinematic original… a movie that reinvents the first-person pronoun.” Roger Ebert, ever the champion of audacious cinema, gave it three-and-a-half stars, noting: “It is not a film you ‘like’ or ‘dislike.’ It is a film you surrender to.”

During a police bust in a sleazy nightclub called “The Void,” Oscar is shot dead in a bathroom. That happens within the first twenty minutes. The remaining two-and-a-half hours of the film take place in Oscar’s disembodied consciousness as his soul—or his “DMT-infused dying brain”—floats above the streets of Tokyo. 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. The reviews were sharply divided