YMMV / Enter the Void

• Gratuitous Special Effects: Noe has said almost every shot has CGI augmentation and Medium Blending.
• Jerkass Woobie: The main character himself, Oscar. He is a drug dealer, a terrible influence on his sister, regularly ignores his friend Alex's advice to improve his life, had sex with the mother of one of his clients and in general is not a nice person. But he's clearly had a tough life, starting with the death of his parents when he was a child and being separated from his sister for years. His fate was completely his fault, but that doesn't make it any less tragic.
• Moment of Awesome: A mild one when Linda tells Victor to kill himself. Normally it would count as a Kick the Dog moment, but given how Victor tried to lay some of the blame on her for her brother's death, it's hard not to cheer her on.
• Nausea Fuel: The abortion scene. Oscar's soul even zooms in on the fetus.
• Nightmare Fuel: The car crash scene. The shots of the mangled corpses of the parents, coupled with a young Linda's agonizing screams of utter trauma, make it unbearable to sit through.
• Signature Scene: The opening credits, commonly regarded as one of the greatest of such sequences in film history — or, at the very least, one of the most stunning.
• Squick: Linda's abortion. Also, seeing an inside view of her having sex with Alex, complete with ejaculation. And then there's the Incest Subtext.
• Tear Jerker: Many.
  • Linda sobbing when she gets the news of her brother's death.
  • Linda and Oscar's parents' deaths. Each time we see the car crash, it's never easier to sit through most significantly due to how heartbreaking it is to hear Linda crying and screaming for her parents.
  • Victor trying to lay the blame on Linda for Oscar's death when she's very clearly in a very bad emotional and mental place.
• Retroactive Recognition: Victor is played by Olly Alexander, who would later gain prominence through his starring role in It's a Sin.
• Spiritual Successor: It definitely comes across as some sort of successor to 2001: A Space Odyssey, featuring the same kind of exploratory existentialism and drawn-out, trippy sequences. It's even harder to sit through due to the addition of general human degeneracy and psychosexual issues, however.
• The Woobie:
  • Linda. She lost her parents at a young age and was then separated from her brother for years until Oscar raised enough money for her to come live with him in Tokyo. From there Oscar gets her into the drugs he's dealing and she ends up working as a stripper. She loves her brother in spite of the terrible influence he is and tries to get him to move on from that life to no avail. And then Oscar gets killed after he is ratted to the police by Viktor. Throughout the film, we can see (from Oscar's POV) how destroyed she is and how she gets worse as time passes.
  • Alex wasn't a clean person either, but he clearly cared about both Oscar and Linda and tried to encourage Oscar to leave his life as a drug dealer behind. Despite his flaws, he is a good person who wants the best for his friend and move on to a better life. After Oscar is killed, he is forced to be on the run from the cops, becoming homeless and regretful of Oscar's fate. It's hard not to feel bad for him after everything he goes through.

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