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El Topo description El Topo's surrealism is more slapstick than Jodorwosky's brilliant follow-up, Holy Mountain, making it more akin to a spaghetti western than a psychedelic journey through the subconscious. The director stars as the gunfighter, El Topo (The Mole), who first gives his 7-year old son (played by real life son, Brontis Jodorowsky) a glimpse of manhood in the form of weaponry, then abandons him for a horseback revenge trip focused on a heartless team of raping, pillaging bandits. Along the way, he meets Mara (Mara Lorenzio), whose tough love encourages him to become a monk. On El Topo's new quest, he encounters spiritual leaders and endures a series of personal realizations about his past violence. Absurd moments, such as when the viewer first encounters the bandits sniffing and drooling over high-heeled women's shoes out in the desert, make El Topo satirically wry. Brutal scenes in which rivers of blood run through towns, or people slaughter each other in firing lines, remind the viewer of Mexico's bloody history. The mixture of ironic humor and violence in El Topo encapsulates Jodorowky's vision of a world in which reality and the imagination are fused, yet completely separate. This paradox, of great thematic concern in all of Jodorowsky's films, is most resonant in El Topo when Mara and The Mole sadistically communicate with whips, guns, and knives. As Holy Mountain's religious message centers wholly around The Alchemist's transformation of Jesus, El Topo introduces love between man and woman into the symbolic mix, compensating for the divine settings and imaginative characters that elucidate the protagonist's enlightenment in the later Holy Mountain. Only by viewing the two films as a double feature will one get the full power of Jodorowsky's Buddhist message, one of self-sacrifice and suffering towards a greater end. --Trinie Dalton |
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| I have often tried to describe El Topo to friends, but have always had the feeling that the more I told them about the movie, the more sure they would be that I was making it up. Now they don't have to wonder if I am fabricating the whole account because I can just play it for them. Not everyone will like this film (although some will be entranced). But of all those viewing it, none will ever have seen anything like it before. Sr. Jodorowsky's commentary is helpful in the extreme for those who would like to understand the film better; there is much about his films and his film-making process that comes to light with his comments.
The other films in this collection (The Holy Mountain, Fando y Lis), while perhaps interesting as art, are less fulfilling as story-telling than is El Topo. The imagery may sometimes be striking in those films, but it is not burned into your memory the way parts of El Topo are. |
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