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Ellen 2022-03-24 09:03:04
We are all mentally ill
It's a bizarre movie, and a controversial one at the same time. The pace of the movie is slow, and the protagonist feels breathless at the beginning eating raw fish. Then start adding different unimaginable content, dwarf people, deaf people, dying elephants, people feel creepy because of the...
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Cassandre 2022-01-13 08:01:39
Struggling to find oneself amidst motherhood and patriarchy
The most interesting movie I watched recently. It's not good to write film reviews, just talk about it casually.
The story begins in a mental hospital, when the protagonist Phoenix has grown up, he lives in a tree, sleeps in a nest, and regards himself as an eagle. Someone in the barrage asked what...

Axel Jodorowsky
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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
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Jerald 2022-03-26 09:01:11
Barely one of the cruelest and most beautiful films I've ever seen. Besides, my mother looks like Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Rubi: [to Fenix] With your hands and my body, we'll have an act that will be sensational.
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[first lines]
[Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]
Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please...
[offers him a normal meal]
Doctor: Eat like a human being.
[pause]
Doctor: [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]
Fenix: [howls]
[jumps down and grabs the fish]
Fenix: Grr!
[sits and begins eating it]
Doctor: You can't just stay here all the time, not seeing anyone.
[pause]
Doctor: Now come on, stand up.