Oh god. Bleh. What a great date movie. Very uplifting.

This is a terrible review of a the film.HEAVE. It's like he just wanted to talk about his knowledge of plays and classical music and philosophy and whatever else he farts over at night. BARF. Review the movie at hand DUDE, and not just by dryly recounting what happens- as he does in the fifth paragraph. BIG FART NOIZE! I hate it when reviewers do this. I'm always bummed when a movie I'm interested in is reviewed by Charles Mudede.

ZZZomp, this is really one of his better reviews. He actually describes parts of the movie a couple of times instead of just rambling about two or three obscure plays/novels that are completely unrelated to the film or discussing how many beautiful women he has slept with. Charles Mudede's textual masturbation is quite pathetic and generally uninformative unless you happen to be Charles Mudede. It's stupefying to me that The Stranger keeps allowing him to write reviews that the vast majority of readers are not going to be able to identify with. At least Everett True had an expiration date (as well as some great insight and strong opinions), but Charles Mudede seems to be here for the long haul.

I like the review. It is allusive, smart without being smart-assed, and human. There's room in the world for the didactic and the circular. Relax.

I agree with ZZZomp, Mudede sucks. His reviews are always so fucking pretentious. "Oh, look at how goddamn intelligent I am, watch me quote shit no one cares about." Do I care about Antigone right now? No. I would like to know what this fucking movie is about, how the actors portray the roles, the cinematography etc, all of this culminating in a decision as to whether or not I want to see the movie. I took Film & Lit too, Mudede, this is not how you write a fucking review.

With respect, Miss Seattle - if that is your real name! - this review explains enough without relying on Antigone (which I have not read) - and furthermore it explains the classical allusion with reference to the plot. Placing it canonically, thematically, culturally...kind of what reviews do.

Antigone is hardly as arcane as those so stupid that they think the sounds their asses make express their ideas ('fart', 'fart noise here' imagine that I am communicating by farting, okay?') might think. And who reads film reviews to "identify" with them? There are 'news' sources for the Moron Community everywhere, and/or you can start a forum where you can ask each others' butts to review the latest movies--so back off the Mudede, nitwits.

Charles, thanks so much for writing about Enter the Void. Yours is the most lucid and insightful commentary I've found so far. I very much appreciated the Hegel/Antigone analogy--this seems like the proper read, or at least one proper read of an extremely impressionistic film. I'd argue, not having seen Noe's other work, that Enter the Void is indeed successful. Hours later I feel like I'm still there inside it.

Whenever I think about Irreversible, I wish I could unwatch it. Not that it's a bad film, it's just traumatic and makes me never want to see it or anything like it again. Sorry about what this means for your future career, Gaspar!

I was impressed. Mudede didn't refer to Marxism once, of course, typing the word 'Rectum' probably acted as a decent surrogate.
He does drag Hegel into the whole mix.
Is there a secret army of Philosophy undergrads with ponytails who jack off to Mudede's nonsense?

Is there a pill that can make SleepingWithNannyState funny or less troll-like? I'm willing to pay top dollar.

This is what happens when you let liberal arts majors write film reviews. You get you get six paragraphs of Aeschylus, Bach and Hegel and one paragraph of what the fucking film is about. This is embarrassing, even by The Stranger's standards

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SHAME ON YOU NORTHWEST FILM FORUM!

I went to see this on Saturday at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle and had a really great movie experience. Only problem was THEY PLAYED THE MOVIE IN THE WRONG ORDER!!!!!!

That's right, the last reel of the film was played in the middle, so that Oscar appears to be reincarnated(?) into his sister's baby and born and the film ends... or so we thought. In what I saw as a great nod to Bergman's PERSONA, the film rolled out abruptly to the point where people started to shuffle in their seats and began to leave the theater only for-what I now think was third reel of- the film to start again right at the point where Oscar has sex with Victor's mother. Brilliant! I thought.

Then the film goes on and ended with us believing that Oscar was reincarnated into his sister's aborted fetus maybe? or maybe into the void-as that was the final image we were left with when the lights came up.

Needless to say, this is a pretty messed up movie to watch anyway, but to walk around thinking it ended on that image of the aborted fetus is really f'd up! Unaware that this was a false version of the film- it didn't stop me from going to the Northwest Film Forum again last night with my wife and a friend to take the whole experience for a second time. Only this time I was completely taken out of the movie because I was questioning whether I watched it wrong then or I was watching it wrong now. Obviously I realized pretty quick that I had watched it wrong then.

It was really disheartening to realize that at the Northwest Film Forum this could happen without them barring the doors and apologizing profusely and giving everyone their money back for completely screwing up everyone's 2 1/2 + hours. Instead they just let a whole theater of people leave with their mind's mashed in the wrong order. I know this kind of thing happens but at a place that holds itself as a preserver of the integrity of film (or something equally as snooty) you would think they would respect their paying customers, if not the filmmakers they are entrusted by. NOPE.

Play your movies right Northwest Film Forum! It is the absolute LEAST you can do.

"Is there a pill that can make SleepingWithNannyState funny or less troll-like? I'm willing to pay top dollar. "

Probably the same one that prevents shoe gazing and sophomoric fawning over pseudo-intellectual film reviews.

SevenDaughters - yeah, MissSeattle is my real name. As Seven Daughters is yours. Moron. And yes, people do read reviews to identify with them to decide whether or not they may like to see a particular film. Reviews written with intelligence, allegory and thought are great. Reviews written with "look-how-much-more-I-know" bullshit references are not. For example, Lindy West writes amazing film reviews. Mudede does not.

I heart SleepingWithNannyState and Sergei. Mudede is a pompous, pontificating ass.