The disabled in the movie are strong and admirable, and the constant struggling for their lives makes viewers cry and move. The naked and primitive body is like returning to the earliest birth of people in the movie. There is no trace of obscenity. What is obscene and disgusting is human nature. We can't ignore the constant release of greed and violence in the movie. The mother who has lost her arms has a strong possessiveness, a fanatic of a broken arm religion, who magically uses witchcraft to perform. There are so many symbols and objects in the movie that the eyes cannot be scanned at a time, and those objects are like popular commodities in postmodern society that attract criminals and greed, constantly stimulating you to consume, buy, hoard and forget. So reincarnation and rebirth. Jodorowsky's pictures are poetic. We may think of Bazanov, but he is more direct and intense. He wants to vent. He wants to vent his passionate emotions in the images through sharp words. We can express the strong feelings of love through amputation, just like a female praying mantis eating the head of a male praying mantis. Right and wrong all disappear and lose their meaning in the dissolution of the image. The image is bloody red all over the screen, as if a decadent scent can be smelled. The plot is simple and complicated to make people think too much, can life be so crazy and so not boring? Jodorowsky helped us realize it all in the movie.
I don't want to explain the nonsense in the video, because the philosophy of such nonsense is so interesting. Jodorowsky is the God I admire, he is the poet of images, so nervous and worshipping blood. He can let humans and animals lose their boundaries, and let a group of fluttering chickens fly above the naked body, with chicken feathers flying and crowing. We also have no intention of discussing the root-seeking, separation, or return in the story. Those boring explanations are inferior to the blood dripping from the long nose of an elephant. How to enjoy the hand and foot dance during the carnival and how to integrate oneself with the illusory world is the most important core theme of watching the entire film. If Almodovar had also discussed the killing of lust, and Sergey Palazhanov’s pictures were picturesque, then Jodorowsky’s "Holy Blood" is an artist who escaped from a mental hospital. Through flogging images, We temporarily lose our sane eyes and go directly to the divine soul. It is meaningless to explore the meaning of a story. A story can always be fictionalized and re-interpreted. The experience that "done here" and will never exist again will only be deeply embedded in the viewer's mind after it has passed.
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