Only life

Stephon 2022-01-09 08:01:30

It is almost impossible for "Holy Mountain" to understand such a surrealist film with great metaphors, and even the director may be too lazy to explain it. In fact, as long as you understand some things in your heart, it's like you can treat everything as shit, or you can see shit as gold. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain. The Buddha said it is all fantasy.

If people want to live more comfortably, they need to fantasize and let go of themselves. Indulgence to the end can only be greater emptiness and pain, even Mencius said to be clear-hearted, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, the consensus of the three schools. Only in the state of ecstasy, the supreme pleasure is a kind of ease and detachment after giving up.

Just like burning money in a movie, forgetting yourself, and giving up the demons, it is possible to reach the holy mountain and reach your goal.

However, the director did not stop at the place where he reached the holy mountain. Why?

Because all this is illusory, there is no immortality, religion is just an escape from reality, there is no holy mountain, just like what the teacher said at the end, this is a movie, in fact, we have nothing. Religion is also a deception.

This is the final revelation, Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism... all religions are the same, not all on the holy mountain, wearing a white coat, in fact there is nothing inside, the question is why we Have to overcome all kinds of hardships to get here?

There is no holy mountain, and there is no need to reach it, although some people think that the temptation is spent halfway on the way to arrive, and some may lose their lives. They are the same as those who are determined to reach the end. Even if you give up everything and reach the state of selflessness, people still have to live.

Live, this is life. To live requires death.

It is impossible to escape from life and death. Anything that is possible is a lie.

So in the end, we still have to return to this world full of absurdity, death, war, killing, poverty, and other things, one must not be less.

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  • Francisca 2022-04-22 07:01:42

    Two years later, I still can't take my eyes off it. It is no exaggeration to say that every time I watch Jordu, I have a feeling that my soul has been baptized. I think Jodorowsky is the only person in film history who has really combined the holy and the filthy. The famous dung alchemy in the holy mountain is the best symbol. Impurity and holiness share the same carrier, and the origin of this carrier is man: all the filth in the world comes from man, but it is also man, and only man, who transforms filth into holiness; the thousands of idols worshipped in the world are also human. It's just a shell made by someone. The sacred mountain is full of dizzying large and small metaphorical symbols, which almost explain the filth and holiness. And it was so beautifully shot. Jordu was truly in his own right, and there has never been a genius like him since.

  • Rupert 2022-04-23 07:03:27

    The western fantasy is the baptism of Christ by Buddhism, just like the Eastern fantasy is the interpretation of Christian teachings; men's fascination with penis and the imagination of female genital "sacrifice" are very cliché in the whole imaginative world. The camera retreats, and once some trust in the viewing world is broken, the absurdity of the real world, superficial amusing, and endless desire for deconstruction will suddenly make many stereotyped fantasies unable to stand. From the perspective of the mountain, whether redemption is to suffer and abandon me, these aspects are too boring for people who have exported any educational significance. Judging from the original characteristics of Nine or Twelve, the desire and goal of longevity, combined with the sense of religious pilgrimage, and the fascination with Eastern Buddhism, gave me a very familiar feeling of turning and rigid. (Look at my embarrassment because of the pain of burning money and flesh on the pilgrimage) From selling statues of Christ, distilling gold from shit, it’s better to watch some satire, watching the camera film Christ carrying his prostitutes and pulling monkeys to follow, watching the installations introduced by the planet Art, man in gas mask dancing with men, it's great

The Holy Mountain quotes

  • Drug Master: The Cross was a mushroom - and the mushroom was also the Tree of Good and Evil.

  • The Alchemist: The grave recieves you with love. Surrender yourself to the Earth. Return what was loaned to you. Give up your pleasure, your pain, your friends, your lovers, your life, your past, what you desire. You will know nothingness, it is the only reality. Don't be afraid, it's so easy to give. You're not alone, you have a grave. It was your first mother. The grave is the door to your rebirth. Now you will surrender the faithful animal you once called your body. Don't try to keep it, remember, it was a loan. Surrended your legs, your sex, your hair, your brain, your all. You no longer want to possess, possession is the ultimate pain. The earth covers your body, she came to cover you with love, because she is your true flesh. Now you are an open heart, open to receive your true essence your ultimate perfection. Your new body, which is the universe, the work of god. You will be born again, you will be real. you will be your own father, your own mother, your own child, your own perfection. Open your eyes, you are the earth, you are the green, you are the blue, you are the Aleph, you are the essence. Look at the flower, look at the flower, for the first time look at the flowers.