"Santa sangre" is not just a story about a man killing dozens of women. The director also puts idolatry, religious beliefs, and the confrontational and inseparable relationship between mother and child in a foreign land. This is a bloody story woven from sex and sacredness. The film begins with the male protagonist who is treated in a mental hospital after he grows up. It traces his childhood nightmare in flashback format. The director Jodo makes the son in the film become a puppet of a mother with a broken arm, just as a mother becomes a puppet of faith and religion.
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The film will attract the audience to watch it again and again, as if you are watching it. Although the stage performance in the film is a bit distorted, the whole film is very well-made. Every aspect of the film is carefully planned, and the slightly tuned circus music is continuously used throughout the film, which makes the film excessively dramatic
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