You think you’re ready for a movie, but obviously preparation is pointless. Gotta jump right in. Enter the void.

Is this a family drama? A drug movie? A death movie? A movie about extremes? A movie about getting sucked in and maybe never getting out intact?

From the first second, (actually I should say millisecond, because every fraction of this thing’s over 2 and a half hour running time is packed) your senses are blitzed. Your sense of direction, orientation, comfort, sanity, all of it gone.

This is a family drama. One of extremes. Traumatic events dominate, define and twist the relationships, and it keeps getting deeper. This is a drug movie. One of extremes. There’s no limit to their addiction or intoxication, and it keeps getting deeper. This is a death movie. Not just about the implications of death, but the very experience of death. And not just how it ends, but how it all comes back around to the beginning. You can even say this is a life movie. Life in extremes.

Exhausting and nerve-racking. Completely messed up. You’ve never seen anything like it. Don’t believe me? Try it. Don’t say you weren’t warned. I mean, the name of the movie is Enter The Void, after all.

8/10