El Topo

El Topo

  • Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Countries of origin: Mexico
  • Language: Spanish
  • Release date: April 15, 1971
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: The Mole
  • It's a very violent cult film with a lot of religious allusions. The story follows a gunman named "The Mole" whose wife is killed, forcing him to seek revenge. In the process, he rescued another woman who was intimidated by the bandits, and she took him to search for the four local gunmen. Before leaving, "Mole" left his son in the monastery. In a fierce fight, he was injured and the woman abandoned her. A group of cavemen find the unconscious "mole" and bring him home. "Mole" woke up many years later, and after returning to normal, helped the cavemen dig a tunnel to escape. Later, they came to a small town where a cult ruled, and the townspeople were intimidated by the police chief's lewd power. A bloody battle ensued.

    Details

    • Release date April 15, 1971
    • Filming locations Cañón de la Huasteca, Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico
    • Production companies Producciones Panicas

    Box office

    Budget

    $1,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $80,302

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $6,857

    Gross worldwide

    $160,468

    Movie reviews

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    • By Reva 2022-12-30 23:55:13

      man hero gloomy movie

      The man buried his son's fairy tale, then abandoned his son and took the woman away. When he left, he said to his son: Kill me with your own strength.
      Everything depends on itself.
      New ideas overcome old ideas, and the fittest survives.

      Heroes sympathize with the good.

      The man finally killed all the enemies, completed the superhuman will, and committed suicide.

      Religion and men draw the essence of each other.
      Religion is carried forward, and men are...

    • By Hal 2022-12-29 06:46:24

      "Watch a movie like today, try to watch a big rear projection in the future"

      Watch a movie like today, and try to watch the big rear-projection

      Zeng Qian

      's "The Mole" in the future. I watched it in one morning. On my TV it's black and white. I do not know why. Anything you watch on this TV is in black and white. Think it should be a problem with the progressive scan port. I don't understand this. Kwon is watching HBO. Technically illiterate. Digital killer. There is no color viewing, so it's impossible to tell if the desert shots in the movie are...

    • By Stone 2022-12-26 14:37:10

      The Mole - A sheep hangs on the cross

      Knowing Duzolowski, or because of the unfinished "Dune", there is a masterpiece that has disappeared in history in the vague impression. But this "The Mole" is really eye-opening, with the magical style of South America, the arrogance that can't help but kill, and the journey of redemption completely different from the style before and after. Probably, people who can fully understand are also lost....

    • By Jason 2022-12-11 06:43:11

      But I still want a few more seeds... ok (Small Reci)

      Reci will, will...

      Sadness
      will take away your fertile libido, the
      rules will be mysterious,
      will block the iguazu in you in a high-grade manner, the
      temptation will be alive,
      will dimly dominate the retrograde, the purification and the sodomy, the torture of the
      senses will be about
      it Only itching
      and reincarnated in a new type of destiny,
      scarring, scarring, metamorphic




      Reci: But I still want a few seeds......

    • By Letha 2022-12-06 22:03:14

      Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky

      I am the father of midnight movies.
        (Subtitle: December 18, 1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono introduced the film to the world.)
        John Lennon himself liked the film so much that he introduced the film to Elgin Cinema and said: You will see to a great movie. At midnight, the movie theater played the movie for the first time, and the movie was not offline for a year, and was still played at midnight.
        This man is after a spirit, he is after peace, and when he does that, everything...

    User comments

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    • By Hollie 2023-09-24 19:15:09

      About the same as the only Ross Meyer movie I've...

    • By Shanna 2023-08-09 03:47:57

      Too much rhetoric is not obscure, just look at the...

    • By Adalberto 2023-07-29 02:16:08

      The best and most incisive cult and surreal movie I've ever...

    • By Clarissa 2023-07-10 00:53:33

      Superb. From a murderer who disregards morality to a saver (destroyer) who is willing to make fun of the...

    • By Alana 2023-06-18 17:48:49

      After watching "Jodorowsky's Dune", I decided to find the film and watch it, and then imagine that the "Dune" that was not made... Maybe it will be a mixture of classics, cults, and mythical films. "The Mole" is definitely a cult, the story is bizarre, the logic is confusing, all kinds of mashups are full of absurdity, I have seen Leonard's westerns, I have also seen Chinese martial arts films, and I have seen Pasolini, Of course, probably none of it has anything to do with...

    Movie quotes

    • El Topo: Too much perfection is a mistake.

    • [first lines]

      El Topo: [to his son] You are seven years old. You are a man. Bury your first toy and your mother's picture.

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