Near Death Experience (2014) User Reviews

The true emptiness of life

[searchanddestroy-1 · 11 September 2014]

A pure lesson of existentialism. A pure masterpiece not for all audiences, depressing at the most. The tale of a lonely man who resumes all his existence after escaping from his home and family. The story of a man condemned to live and who suddenly realizes it.

A movie that makes you Wonder the true meaning of life.

Is life really Worth?

That's a good question.

From time to time, I personally feel close to this man, a brilliant man who asks the good questions and finally finds the correct answers. As Icare approaches the sun too closely... A very gripping, bleak, sad, depressing movie from which you think long after the viewing. In resume, to enjoy life, don't think about it. Don't think at all. Be the perfect brainless village idiot. And then, only then you'll be happy. I know that most of the IMDb users who will read this comment won't agree with me. But I don't care.

Nihilism and nature

[que_no_me_toque_un_alto_delante · 3/10 · 17 October 2015]

It is a film of a single actor, that in a depressive and depressing spiral, develops a series of existencialists monologues, alternating with images of the mountain where it is located. An exercise in cinema, with some redeemable things, but basically very boring. I cannot say anything about Houellebecq. He does it well, but it's never clear if he's acting. If he wanted to convey a visually unpleasant person, he succeeded. The screenplay is more than brief. Basically, philosophical ramblings bathed in gloom. Some very interesting, some more acidic, some more funny, but with little cohesion. If they had made a short 20 minutes long, only of the spoken part, perhaps the result would have been better. As for aesthetics, many still shots of nature with low image quality, raw photography. As an experience, it was worth it. But for the sake of truth, it is a movie hard to endure. Only for braves wanting to experience.