El Topo Comments

  • Marcelina 2022-08-27 18:04:24

    A manly movie, full of fantasy blood and violence, the movie has a strong religious meaning, organ worship and symbolism~ It's really a good story that can be told by a master who has seen the joys and sorrows of the world. The master's trilogy I I've seen them all, relatively speaking, I prefer Holy Blood and Fando and Liz ps. I'm very unhappy watching this D9, I don't know why it's all slow motion on my...

  • Jamil 2022-08-27 16:19:33

    Today, Jodorowsky's "The Mole" is completely out of date, both in style and in subject matter. The biggest problem with symbolism is that poetic symbols are not symbols that can exist on their own. Its orientation requires context, real stories, characters, and backgrounds. What exactly do all these strange plots and characters point to? No one can tell. Their union makes sense only in the head of a strongly autobiographical hero and director, and this meaning cannot be transmitted to the...

  • Gilberto 2022-08-27 15:43:41

    My gun has been replaced by someone else's butterfly net, what am I going to use to duel you? I have nothing, I am not afraid of death, what can you get from...

  • Eunice 2022-08-27 13:28:57

    The first half: The four musketeers—the carriers of the oriental divinity. Protagonist - typical contemporary: vague sense of justice, competitive, adrenaline-driven, shallow sensualism and swaying intellectual personality, split. Back section: The Village - a model of Western consumer society: well-dressed, violent pleasure, objectification of the same, ideological infiltration, kitsch, lustful, advancing, resisting decline. The protagonist—the gap between divinity and...

Extended Reading

El Topo quotes

  • Master #2: I hate all that is mine, because it distances me from her divine presence.

  • The Colonel: Who are you to judge me?

    El Topo: I am God!

El Topo

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Language: Spanish Release date: April 15, 1971