Films Of Alejandro Jodorowsky
"El Topo (The Mole) is written by, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and stars. Jodorowsky also has contributed to music, advertising, and costumes of midnight in the West. The whole movie is a symbolic act, but there are not separate lines, so that everyone watching this movie will come away with different interpretations.
The film begins with El Topo (Jodorowsky), dressed in black, the son of his 7-year-old (played by his real life son Brontis Jodorowsky), wearing only a hat, riding through the desert without doubt, a predetermined place. El Topo office to his son that he is now a man, and now must bury your child. This childhood is symbolized by the child's first toy and a picture mother.
He never explains why the child appears as it did in the first part of the film, but one can guess is to portray its purity and innocence, unlike the dark aura manifested by his father, who is a heart shot.
After their initiation into adulthood, the father and the son goes off for no apparent destination in mind. Soon come into a town where everyone (men, women and children) including livestock were slaughtered. The two pilgrims on foot through the city quiet, taking everything with an air of indifference. Soon they found one survivor, who asked they kill him. After discovering that they had massacred the villagers, El Topo hands the gun to his son instructing him to shoot the man. The child obeyed, but buried quickly in the arms of his father.
Topo product to find the bandits who killed the inhabitants. After killing everyone, left your child to a group of monks and tours of the woman who had been taken hostage by bandits. This is so the viewer in the second part of the movie is even more extravagant than the first.
While the first part of the film was a portrait of good over evil, the second part represents a more confusing of right and wrong. The viewer is left with feeling that is neither black nor white, everything is just a gray area, where all the results, good or bad, are simply the work destination.
"El Topo" is not evaluated, but warned an audience.
Christian Jentz is a world traveler who has visited nine different countries, and has lived in three. His travels have taken him to seven countries in Europe, one in North America, and one in Asia. He is an avid film buff, and through his travels has developed a love for foreign movies. He has written several articles, as well as contributed to several blogs for BlueCowboyFilms.com. He speaks English, Spanish, and Chinese. He currently resides in China where he is an English instructor.
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