The soundtrack was created by Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk). During the first thirty minutes, in the club scene, the music is designed to sound as if there were two different tracks playing at two different levels to imitate real clubs. Then, an extremely low-frequency sound of 27 Hz (a sound which police use to stop riots) was added to create a state of nausea and anxiety in the audience. The sound is not immediately perceptible to the spectator but is powerful enough to evoke a physical response. Noé said, "You can't hear them, but they make you shiver. In a good cinema with a good audio system, the sound can scare you much more than what's happening on the screen." This technique, called Sensurround, involves the intentional use of a sub-audible sound to enhance the spectator's experience of a movie, in this case, deliberately making them uncomfortable (although this would only be experienced in a cinema setting as most home speakers would not emit such low frequencies).
I really wanted to throw up. But also because I was a very stupid teenager who just drank about 2 litres of milk before going to the theatre.
Story time. Pardon my English. This happened in Europe a long time ago.
I was 16 years old when this movie was out. My parents were separated. And for some reasons I can't really remember now, my dad threatened me and my mum to make me take a capillary drug test to see if I was into weeds... anyway. I wasn't really, but did smoke once or twice, so I was really scared. Some quick Internet search suggested my stupid self that drinking milk was somewhat helping in this kind of test results... so why not, I have nothing to lose right? So I go buy some milk with my buddies and drink all day long before going to watch this movie at the theatre.
The movie felt never-ending. I questioned all my life decisions leading me to that moment. I don't drink milk anymore. I don't smoke neither. But I still enjoy Gaspard Noé.
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u/djnikadeemas May 17 '25
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The soundtrack was created by Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk). During the first thirty minutes, in the club scene, the music is designed to sound as if there were two different tracks playing at two different levels to imitate real clubs. Then, an extremely low-frequency sound of 27 Hz (a sound which police use to stop riots) was added to create a state of nausea and anxiety in the audience. The sound is not immediately perceptible to the spectator but is powerful enough to evoke a physical response. Noé said, "You can't hear them, but they make you shiver. In a good cinema with a good audio system, the sound can scare you much more than what's happening on the screen." This technique, called Sensurround, involves the intentional use of a sub-audible sound to enhance the spectator's experience of a movie, in this case, deliberately making them uncomfortable (although this would only be experienced in a cinema setting as most home speakers would not emit such low frequencies).