Some of the interviews with the director

Ryder 2022-03-14 14:12:26

1. Boys' resistance to male tyranny—the father’s eagle and the ground cock; 2. The bloody and cruel death of elephants immediately after the sexual revelation became the nightmare of boys resisting growth; 3. The dependence on motherhood became the welcome The resistance of reality; 4. The disappearance of the illusion symbolizes that the boy has finally grown into a man in his own way. The existence of the mute girl is really warm and beautiful.

Kristin 2022-03-23 09:02:50

His blasphemy is praise, and praise is criticism. Praise the ugliness, because it blooms the evil flowers of people, praises the nothingness, which represents the claim for freedom; the whole film has very little dialogue, using the actor's body as the language of the spirit, showing the normal state of people with this distortion, blurring the flesh and blood It restores the composition of life; each piece of soundtrack is taken out to make an album, and it can also become a universal piece of music from beginning to end; until the end, I found myself watching the story of a mental patient's recovery, like Bergman's fantasy configuration, Expanding "Wild Strawberry", the motif is "Autumn Sonata", the mother is a religion/cult rooted in "my" life, and mother-killing is the first ending of Jodorowsky, but "you can never get rid of I, I have long been rooted in your body." The inner demon brewing in the family in childhood controls "I," the psychotic entity. However, Jodorowsky continued the second ending. To start his own life, he could not let himself become a weapon for mothers to take revenge on the world. The friends he met along the way helped "me" to throw his mother's body out of the window and cremate it. Completely cremate "I"'s morbid state, and then recede as a phantom. (Broadcast continued