Work Title: Enter the Void
Medium: Film
Episode Title:
Year: 2009
Writer(s): Gaspar Noé
"Original" Writer: Yes Writer(s):
"Original" Writer: Yes Own work?: No
Summary:

An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.

Era/Year of Portrayal: present_day
Distinctive characteristics of the world in portrayal:

Present day in 2009, and most of the film happens during the night, there's no much sunlight. Set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo.

Technology

  • Name of portrayed presence-evoking technology: Drugs
  • Description of the technology: The technology used in the plot is drugs as LCD, DMT, opioids, which take the user to an unconscious level that allows him to experiences situations that transcend the senses. So, after Oscar's death, his soul starts a journey where he observers how the lives of the people he lived with change. The journey of his soul feels pretty much like a psychedelic experience in which he can observe everyone, but nobody listens to him, and he can not touch things. He's subjected to the effects of the trip, which means he has no control over his emotions or what he sees. He will go wherever his soul takes him.
  • Nature of task or activity: People had normal interactions, and Oscar has to watch them.
  • Performance of the Technology: Oscar's soul journey fulfills its function. Show what life is like without him on earth
  • Description of creator(s): Oscar, Male, 26 year old, drug dealer, drug consumer.
  • Major goal(s) of creator(s): The goal is to het stoned and experience a reincarnation journey
  • Description of users of technology: Mid-20's, drug user,
  • Type(s) of presence experience in the portrayal: both
  • Description of presence experience: The drugs on this film are design to relive life's most traumatic moments through a reincarnation journey
  • User awareness of technology during experience: He's not aware of the technology
  • Valence of experience: He finds it unpleasant yet he wasn't to keep in the journey because he gets to see the people his loved ones.
  • Specific responses: The user is completely concentrated on his journey.
Long-term consequences:

The final scene is shot of a baby being born. This is a flashback to Oscar's birth in the form of a false memory.

Other:

Coder name: Laura Carvajal
Coder email: tul06586@temple.edu
Coder affiliation: Temple-Student