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Rating: Visionary, surreal, incredibly powerful.
The Holy Mountain (1973) by Alejandro Jodorowsky is an exceptionally unique film, almost indescribable, rich in symbols and hidden meanings, often indecipherable.
The Chilean director plays with the viewer from the beginning to the end of the film, continually changing direction, led by bizarre mental associations darker than the night.
Archetypes of a twisted mind, deformed religion, acid mysticism.
A fake Christ that serves as a mold for wax Christs, frogs in traveling theaters portraying the conquistadors assaulting the people of Central America (also frogs), women raped in public, mass shootings, colored blood.
People bleed flowers, fruits, plants.
There is no soul inside us, just what we are.
The false Christ reaches the center of a tower and meets an alchemist who promises him eternal life.
Transform shit into gold, in every sense.
We are shit.
The rulers of our world come from other planets, spreading lies and destruction.
A mechanical vagina must achieve a mechanical orgasm.
The children of the nation must learn to hate from a young age. An army of children is created with toy guns.
Appearance is everything, merchants of plastic asses and fake faces to glue onto real ones.
The chief of police collects testicles.
All of this must change. We must reach the holy mountain, find the true self that unites us with a larger self, ME ME ME ME ME.
To live forever, one must challenge the wise men who live on the mountain, learn their secrets. They are 40,000 years old.
Become the earth, the flowers, hear the noise of bees, see through the eyes of a dog.
Jodorowsky is a mad visionary, and through incredible scenography, he crafts a world of unimaginable colors and symbols.
Surrealism in power.
And at the end of the ascent, there's just another deceit. More shocking than ever.
We are only images, but this time it's not a film.
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By diverso
The film becomes less 'dystopian' and gradually more comprehensible, revealing something extremely realistic.
The ending is brilliant as it reveals that it was just a film, delivering the message that what the elected did can be done by each one of us in real life.
