| abstract | - Enter the Void is Gaspar Noe's 2009 film. Described by Noe as a "psychedelic melodrama," the film opens with Oscar living in Tokyo, supporting himself by dealing drugs, against the advice of his sister Linda and friend Alex. Alex attempts to turn Oscar toward spirituality with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as opposed to drug abuse, which Alex claims will "fry (his) brain". The first act follows Oscar's nightly routine through strict point-of-view shots, including momentary blackouts to represent blinking, and extended sequences of drug-induced hallucination. Oscar and Alex leave the apartment to deliver drugs to Oscar's friend Victor. On the way, Alex explains parts of The Tibetan Book of the Dead aloud to Oscar: how the spirit of a dead person sometimes will stay among the living until it begins to experience nightmares, after which it will attempt to reincarnate. Then Oscar arrives at the bar The Void, and just as he sits down with Victor, the police come to swarm the place. Oscar is chased down into the washroom stalls, where he desperately tries to flush away his incriminating drugs. He gets shot. We view it all from his viewpoint, as his spirit rises from his body and watches over the events which follow.
- Aboard a Zaofu airship headed for the Northern Air Temple, Team Avatar debates how they might save the captive airbenders from Zaheer. Suyin Beifong proposes an attack strategy based on an ambush from the air; Lin Beifong dismisses the idea, however, as it would leave them vulnerable to a counterattack by P'Li. She proposes instead a more covert approach from the mountainside, though Suyin in turn rejects that plan, as it would put them at risk of being doused in lava by Ghazan. Bolin suggests disguising himself as a lost hiker and distracting the Red Lotus with his bird calls, earning him strange looks from the group and an angry dismissal from Mako. Bolin angrily tells his brother that he has not heard any plans from him, but Korra interrupts the brewing argument; she tells all of them that none of their ideas will work, and that Zaheer will kill the airbenders if he suspects they are up to something. Suyin assures Korra that she is aware of what is at stake, given that Opal is one of the prisoners. Korra acknowledges the matriarch and tells her their only chance of success is if she gives herself up to Zaheer. Despite the others being against it, she insists that keeping the Air Nation alive is crucial in maintaining the balance of the world. Korra then contacts Zaheer, who is waiting in the radio room of the Northern Air Temple, and agrees to give herself up in exchange for the release of the airbenders. Back on the airship, Bolin voices his concern over Opal's well-being, visibly tense as Pabu is not present to comfort him. He wonders how he and Naga are doing; at that moment in Zaofu, the two animals are playing tug-of-war with Mako's scarf, and being scolded by Yin for their behavior. Korra goes back to the group after contacting Zaheer, where Suyin has come up with a plan: Mako, Bolin and Asami will take the airship to the Northern Air Temple, while Tonraq and all the metalbenders will provide backup for Korra at Laghima's Peak, where she and Zaheer will meet. At the temple, Zaheer meditates with Laghima's locket. P'Li enters the room, telling him they have secured the airbenders, and the two share a brief, emotional moment: the firebender remembers that Zaheer rescued her from a warlord, who sought to harness her extraordinary ability for his own ends. Zaheer promises her that they will have achieved their goal by tomorrow, and that their world will change forever. Zaheer adds that he loves her, and the two share a kiss. The airship of the Metal Clan sets down below Laghima's Peak, and Lin gives Mako some final instructions. Korra hugs Team Avatar goodbye before they leave for the temple, and Tonraq tells her how proud he is of her. After a final hug, Korra sets off on her glider, while the metalbenders scale the mountain with their cables and Tonraq follows them with two water tendrils. Mako, Bolin, and Asami fly around the Northern Air Temple, astonished by the damage the building has sustained. They touch down and meet Ghazan, who leads them to a badly beaten Tenzin and what appear to be the airbenders being held hostage. At the same time, Korra touches down at Laghima's Peak, where Zaheer and P'Li are waiting for her. The airbender tells Korra to drop her glider and her radio, but she refuses at first. Mako radios Korra, informing her that they can see the airbenders, but warns her that Ghazan is with them. Korra yells at Zaheer to make the lavabender stand down, but he insists on Korra turning herself over first. Korra continues to resist, at which point Zaheer radios Ghazan to wipe out the airbenders; out of options, Korra walks forward and allows P'Li to cuff her. Leading the Avatar toward their airship, the combustionbender tells Korra the cuffs are made of platinum, and she does not need to bother trying to metalbend herself free. Meanwhile, Asami and Bolin set to work freeing Tenzin, while Mako moves in to free the other airbenders. As they approach the captives, however, they are shocked to realize they have walked into a trap: the figures they assumed were the airbenders collapse, revealing they were nothing more than Ming-Hua holding up airbender clothes with waterbending. Frantic, Mako radios to Korra that they have been tricked, and Korra, despite her chains, immediately engages her captors. Mako also radios Lin to intervene and free Korra immediately, and the metalbenders quickly scale the rest of the mountain; reaching the summit, they find P'Li waiting for them. Korra, still chained and fighting alone, is no match for Zaheer, who overpowers her with relative ease. He walks her to the airship, but Tonraq intervenes, slicing the cables holding the ship to the ground and joining the fight alongside his daughter. After a brief battle, Ghazan and Ming-Hua escape, sealing off the exit with a lake of lava and leaving Team Avatar to die. Asami manages to free Tenzin with a hairpin, and the wounded airbender reveals that he knows an alternate escape route, if Bolin can earthbend through the back wall. This leads them to an office, where a trapdoor leading down into the mountain is located. They manage to escape through the passage, but the lava follows them, flowing down the tunnel behind them. Back at Laghima's Peak, the metalbenders struggle in their fight with P'Li, while Zaheer and the team of Tonraq and Korra seem evenly matched. When Tonraq leaves himself exposed for a moment, the airbender takes advantage and hurls him over the cliff, to Korra's horror. P'Li corners Lin and Suyin behind a rock, to which Lin decides to attempt to distract the combustionbender, thereby giving Suyin a chance to take her out. P'Li aims her attacks at Lin, leaving herself open to Suyin. The metalbender rushes out as Lin goes down, wrapping her armor around P'Li's head just as the bender begins her attack; the sudden blocking of the beam places the point of detonation directly in front of P'Li's head, directing its full force back into her face. The ensuing explosion kills the tall woman instantly. Hearing the metallic explosion, Zaheer whirls around and realizes with horror that his love is dead. Korra immediately engages him again, however, and he quickly refocuses his attacks, managing to knock her out. Lifting her over his shoulder, he notices that his airship has drifted off, leaving him stranded atop the mountain. Lin and Suyin, having finally made their way to Zaheer and Korra, order him to release the Avatar. Zaheer, seemingly lost in his own musing, quotes the poem of Guru Laghima to himself: "Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become wind." He then falls backward off the cliff, with Korra still over his shoulder. Shocked, the Beifong sisters rush forward to follow his fall, only to discover, to their shock, that an unharmed Zaheer is floating in midair, as though he is standing on the clouds. Lin and Suyin shoot their cables at him, but he nimbly maneuvers around them and flies toward the airship in the distance, leaving the sisters in disbelief. Zaheer rapidly flies past the airship piloted by Ghazan and Ming-Hua, his two companions are shocked as well. Meanwhile, on the side of the cliff, Tonraq, having been saved by Kuvira, watches Zaheer fly away with his daughter. Underneath the temple, Bolin realizes that they will not be able to outrun the lava, and decides to create another path. This new path, however, opens directly onto the sheer cliff face, trapping them between a long fall and the lava behind them. Desperate, Bolin makes an effort to lavabend and is, along with his allies, shocked to succeed: the lava cools, creating a barrier of stone that saves their lives. Shortly afterward, much to Tenzin's surprise, Kai and his bison, Lefty, fly toward them. The team boards the bison, and the overburdened animal carries them to safety. Tenzin looks back as the Northern Air Temple, its foundations weakened by the lava, collapses behind them. When they land near the peak, Tonraq and the others are waiting for them, and tell them that Korra has been taken by Zaheer; Suyin tells Tenzin that Zaheer has discovered the ability to fly. As they discuss where Korra and the airbenders might be, Kai tries several times to offer some information, but he is drowned out and ignored by the group, forcing him to shout: he knows where the airbenders are, and can lead them there. He explains that after P'Li blasted him out of the air, he woke up in a tree, and Lefty found him. He attempted to return to the temple only to spot the hostages being moved to a cave near the air temple, where they were handed off to four more Red Lotus members. Before they leave, Mako apologizes to Kai for giving him a hard time, but Kai brushes it off, saying he probably deserved it. Flying on Lefty and Oogi, the team goes to the cave, while the Zaofu security force stays at the mountain to recover. In the caves, Ghazan and Ming-Hua approach a levitating Zaheer, who is meditating, and ask him about his new ability. Zaheer tells them he gained it by releasing his attachments to the world, gaining true freedom in the process. Ming-Hua asks where P'Li is, and Zaheer tells her that she sacrificed herself for their cause, adding that he hopes her death will not be in vain. They move to another chamber of the cave, where Korra is suspended in midair by four platinum chains. When Korra sees Zaheer, she accuses him of murdering her father and, enraged, attempts to incinerate him by breathing fire at him, but she does not have the range. Zaheer tells Korra that he has also lost a loved one that day, and can relate to the pain she feels. To Korra's horror, he assures her that her pain will soon end, and calls to two members of the Red Lotus to bring him a bowl of metallic poison.
- Enter the Void is a 2009 fantasy film written and directed by Gaspar Noé and starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta and Cyril Roy. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets shot by the police, but continues to watch succeeding events during an out-of-body experience. The film is shot from a first-person viewpoint, which often floats above the city streets, and occasionally features Oscar staring over his own shoulder as he recalls moments from his past. Noé labels the film as a "psychedelic melodrama". Noé's dream project for many years, the production was made possible after the commercial success of Irréversible, his previous feature film. Enter the Void was primarily financed by Wild Bunch, while Fidélité Films led the actual production. The cast is a mix of professionals and first-timers. The film makes heavy use of imagery inspired by experimental cinema andpsychedelic drug experiences. Principal photography took place on location in Tokyo, and involved many complicated crane shots. Co-producers included the visual effects studio BUF Compagnie, which also provided the computer-generated imagery. The film's soundtrack is a collage of electronic pop and experimental music. A rough cut premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, but post-production work continued, and the film was not released in France until almost a year later. A cut-down version was released in the United States and United Kingdom in September 2010. The critical response was sharply divided: positive reviews described the film as captivating and innovative, while negative critics called it tedious and puerile. The film performed poorly at the box office.
- thumb|265pxEnter the void (en inglés "Entrar al vacío") es una película francesa del director argentino Gaspar Noé. La película se centra en Oscar, interpretado por Nathaniel Brown, un joven traficante de drogas en Tokio que muere y regresa como un fantasma para velar por su hermana Linda. Paz de la Huerta co protagoniza como la hermana. La cámara sigue a Oscar por detrás de su cabeza durante las escenas en las que él está vivo. Después de su muerte, se muestra sobre la vista a Tokio, a través de paredes y entre los edificios. La película se estrenó en el Festival de Cannes 2009 y fue después de varios recortes estrenada en Francia, casi un año después.
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