Cult? Bible? Road to Madness

Mallory 2022-01-09 08:01:30

First make a statement: high morals, virtuous and virtuous believers, hard-line believers, and traditional people are forbidden to watch this film and this comment because they do not want to blaspheme faith and gods in words and cause unnecessary disputes.

Alejandro Jodorowsky deserves to be the originator of the cult. The close-ups of large amounts of blood plasma, residual value broken arms, and naked sexual organs are just expressions. The philosophical rebellion and madness in the bones are the real convincing charm. "Holy Mountain" can be said to be the most rebellious and controversial film in his works. His surrealism no longer stops at the bloody vendetta of the niche, but directly confronts the soul and faith, which has an impact. And meaning, far beyond the traditional Cult film that relies on visual effects to impact psychology.

Jodorowsky portrayed Jesus as an ordinary, slightly greedy and wretched mortal. He entered the fallen world under the guidance of the disabled dwarf. A large number of symbolic and magical elements were introduced into this surreal space. All humans are the most The darkest and most insane side is infinitely magnified: transport vehicles full of blood flowing into rivers of corpses, unscrupulous executions of soldiers on the street, tourists frantically taking pictures, executioners who have sex with strangers in broad daylight, and wounds of the dead. There are blood of different colors flowing out of it, and then flying incessantly, lively birds, prostitutes reporting chimpanzees to visit the church, priests who sleep in coffins and profuse themselves against the statue of Jesus, the statue of Jesus made from the same template, bright red The towering Barbita... slaughter, promiscuity, the chaotic world under power, and the blasphemy against gods, almost every scene produces a dizzying and intense stimulus, but it is such a ridiculous world , Jesus was guided by the master in the feared Barbita. The master’s alchemy turned Jesus’ dirty stool into the coveted gold of the world. He led the world’s most depraved disciples to find the holy mountain in their hearts. To find the secret of immortality.

This kind of plot and character setting is full of assumptions about the coming of pagan doomsday. Suspicions and accusations about religion, belief, alchemy, astrology, pilgrimage, magic, sex, and death can be said to be human traditions and dominance. Faith, science, and politics are the most positive provocations. All the weird ideas and all the grotesques were eclipsed in front of Jodorowsky. He made every fallen person represent a planet in the solar system, and the fallen galaxy represents the fallen universe. Children's toys developed and produced for the future war; naked buttocks painted with oil on the assembly line, leaving abstract marks on white paper during the rise and fall, becoming abstract and inexplicable works of art; various installations made by living people; OK The machine that produces climax...Jodorowsky satirizes the politics and worshipped abstract art wrapped in a hypocritical coat to the extreme. It is the strong visual discomfort that makes the audience's emotions completely free from the fetters of reality and enters with the characters. The pilgrimage of self-purification seems to be the only way to find the lost direction from the fallen mortal world.

However, when the sin-stained believers finally set foot on the peak of the pilgrimage, Jodorowsky did not let the final salvation appear on the screen. Cameras, booms, scenery boards... everything was just a fictional movie. He fictionalized the end of his faith. But slyly he didn't reveal his fictitious real world, because it was the most real, degenerate and absurd scene in his eyes. Religion was useless and belief was useless. When all the mists that blinded his eyes were dispersed, the world would still suffer in it.

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Extended Reading
  • Shirley 2022-03-21 09:02:39

    It’s the pinnacle of a personal poem movie. It’s not too advanced compared to “Holy Blood”, including vision and imagery, but halfway through it, I suddenly want to go and take a look at the Bauhaus ballet. Sure enough, there’s no harm without comparison. The ultimate beauty is still the most dazzling.

  • Timothy 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    world. ||||||||||| Untie the bondage, untie, throw away the prejudice. Forget yourself. The real world, the absurd world, the world that cannot be projected by one's own shadow. Finally, the end of the holy way is the beginning of another world. |||||||| Top ten. |The second time, the giant cow, jodorowsky is an artist "you would have written the history, but we've already forgotten you."

The Holy Mountain quotes

  • The Alchemist: You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.

  • Drug Master: The Cross was a mushroom - and the mushroom was also the Tree of Good and Evil.