In this world, no one likes big mouths, but they seem to be open to the big mouths that are expected, because people are really good, and to put it bluntly, they have to rely on their works to speak. Of course, the works are very good, but people are not good. , is more pleasing. But Alejandro Jodorowsky is destined to be a geeky old man who looks great in both people and works. In the past few years, this 80-year-old grandfather, who is so powerful, has been disgusting Hollywood every time he appears.
He said: Hollywood can only destroy movies, I just want to make unprofitable movies. My films have nothing to do with Chilean films. My filmmaking is basically all in Mexico. I have both French and Chilean passports. At least half of "Reality Dance" (2013) belongs to France, and the rest belongs to Mexico and myself (fortunately he is not Chinese, otherwise he will be called a traitor). The entire "Dance of Reality" was filmed in secret, and not even a single photo was taken on the spot, let alone other tidbits. All my family used it. The eldest son played my father, and I also cameo. My youngest son is a musician, wrote music for the movie, and played a political role. My lover is a designer, and all the costumes and props come from her wonderful hand.
Although this is my childhood experience, I still have to reshape my parents. My mother is from Ukraine and always wanted to be a musician, she sings very well. Film is an experience of life, a reshaping of the soul. I made a film and will continue to make a film that belongs to my heart, and it's all about making money.
This grandfather's movie, think calmly, is definitely not my favorite light and shadow, it's a bit noisy, but the imagination is strange, weird and magical enough. It should belong to the traditional construction under the modern appearance, although it is very dare to reveal, dare to go crazy, dare to speak. It is traditional, although there are many free parts, but the main narrative is still within the linear axis, full of light and hope. The iconoclast is different, it must always be sloppy, disorderly, and unexpectedly perverse. But "Dance of Reality" contains the light and shadow of his earlier, convergently walking on the track of normality.
Of course, what I mean by tradition is not tradition in the general sense. In other words, "Dance of Reality," 30 years after his last film, is a work of poetic tradition fused with modernity. After all, it is to present the experience of a child's growth, and it would be out of proportion to be too modern. Therefore, the old man's film narrative has become a matter of course.
The eldest son plays his father, Jamme Jodorowsky, a pure hybrid of two autocratic dictators, Stalin and Ibenez, and finally, when he returns weak and weak, his wife. In time to help him reconstruct this identity, after burning the portraits of Stalin and Ibenez, he also burned himself. Because all he does is himself. His tyranny is unstoppable. The object of his education is mainly his teenage son. First of all, he had to take off the wig that his wife had imposed on his son's head, saying that he missed his grandfather, which is nonsense.
What's even more absurd is that he burned his palm with a cigarette butt, telling his son to overcome pain with will. Willpower conquers everything. The teeth that his son knocked down by his slap were vacuumed, so he should not be given anesthesia. Then, he took his son to the seaside to see the sea and blow the breeze. He said that men need to know how to control themselves.
The funny magic stick told his son that the stones came from nowhere and where they were going. But as a treasure, you can see that these cable cars are like our bodies, carrying human souls, and God is in our souls, melt them away, and they can be integrated. So the magic stick gave him three crosses, a star, a moon, and a six-pointed star, which could be tied into a necklace, so that he could always obey God's will. However, when his son took it home, he was thrown into the toilet as garbage and flushed. out, roaring and shouting that God does not exist.
Since God does not exist, he is also a member of the Communist Party. As an atheist, he can't help but become fetishized, and then he needs to solve the id physically. This is his pain and contradiction. He was a charging firefighter who was mocked by his colleagues as an unreasonable Jew, as embarrassed as his son.
Of course, he had to preside over a secret meeting, ready to launch action against the dictator. He carried a pistol and put it in the crotch of his trousers, which he said would not be found, but someone really came to San Diego to avenge his father, and actually walked in front of him to assassinate the dictator.
He waved his hand, no, don't do this, it's all up to me. As a result, without listening to the advice, the assassin's assassination was fruitless and he committed suicide. Jammeh has the supreme reward, but he doesn't want money, he just wants to be a groom.
Well, go to my Royal Guard and look after my white horse named Achilles. That's a dictator's favorite. After burying the old groom. He made the dictator's favorite horse eat poisonous yellow flowers. Ibenez stroked his dying horse and wept into tears.
Just as he shivered and took out the gun from behind, Ibenez took it and shot his beloved horse, in order to reduce its pain and let it die. Ibenez got up and said, You are the most loyal person I have ever met. Don't hold back this time. He took a wad of money, and after he lost his mind, he lost the function of both hands inexplicably.
He lost his way and wandered somewhere, only a river away from the horizon. A kind woman rescued him and painted his hands with the red, blue and white Chilean flag, but he also lost his memory. The mother at home saw her son miss his father. So, she took her son to the beach and let the white balloon carry a stone into the sky. She said a rock would take him home.
Fluttering stones smashed onto his broken roof impartially. He woke up. Memory returned. The woman who saved her said I wrote a letter and I will leave when you wake up because I will always love you. The woman really left.
He had nowhere to go again. An old carpenter rescued him. The old man believed in God and made a hundred wooden chairs for the church for free. The old man said you should polish my chair here. He was reborn. But when he was praying in the church, the old man died suddenly, which made him sad. Then came the fascist march of the dictator.
His anti-authoritarian anger rekindled, and he was tortured almost to the point of being imprisoned. He just didn't want to live anymore. Fortunately, the dictator was quickly overthrown, and he finally set out on his way home.
His divine wife Sarah rescued him from the once tyrannical. This is a brilliant irony. The patriarchy ultimately surrenders to motherhood. This is the right way. At the critical moment, the mother stepped forward and used her pure singing voice to give her husband practical guidance and comfort to her son.
Before setting foot in Santiago, a group of black dead patients came to the small town of Tocopia. No one dared to approach them. Only he drove a donkey cart to deliver water, but these dying people even slaughtered and eaten the donkey he delivered water. Lose. He said you killed all the donkeys, what will I bring you tomorrow with water. They say we're all starving, what about tomorrow.
This is the second big setback for him. The first is that he was fighting fires when he was a firefighter, and was repeatedly ridiculed by his colleagues. His crux of the matter is that, although he calls himself a communist, he despises the poor, the dwarfs, and the handicapped. But his son likes those people, but he beats and scolds them. The son was sympathetic and gave the red rubber shoes to the shoe shine boy, who died of excitement on the beach. The son could only go home barefoot, and of course he was beaten violently.
To put it bluntly, he claims to be anti-authoritarian, but he is more authoritarian than anyone else. Even for his wife, he will come whenever he wants, and never consider his wife's feelings. He is the tyrant of a family, but insists on disguising himself as the supreme warrior.
Of course, he did have a "hero" too. The sun really comes out of the west. That water delivery was his only act of taking care of the poor, but it made him lose his mind. It was his wife who woke him up with singing and even flushed him with urine. Because only by returning him to normal will he not be treated as a black patient by the police outside the house.
Wife is undoubtedly the embodiment of holiness and wisdom. The son was beaten in the poor man's bar, and the mother took him in naked as if he were no one. The son was afraid of the dark, so she smeared him with black mud and played hide-and-seek with him to exercise his courage, telling him that there is also God in the dark, because the dark is also a part of our life, there is no need to be afraid.
At the beginning of the film, the gold coins were scattered, and the old man said seriously: "Money is like blood, flowing money can give life, money is like Jesus, shared money can give blessings, money is like a Buddha, you who have been through the past can only Those who are qualified to own and give flowers to others, money gives them light, and vice versa, the rich see them introspection. There is no difference between money and conscience, and conscience and death are not far away, and there is only a thin line between death and wealth.”
The clowns appear in turns to perform, which seems funny, but it is a real scene in the small town of Tocobia in Chile. It's just that you are so amazing, old man. You were humiliated when you were young, and you climbed the cliff near the sea. Of course, you didn't jump off, because you always rescue yourself every time you die.
This reminds me of Bella Tal. In the eastern and western hemispheres, this pair of big names is enough to be lively. The so-called dance of reality is just an interpretation over time after the accumulation of time. Jammeh always said hysterically, "God doesn't exist, people become ashes after death, that's all." The old man is obsessed with his own surreal imagination, which can be said to be fully exposed. That's what makes him so awesome.
In the dazzling, he never hides, and uses seemingly absurd methods to bring all kinds of people with physical and mental disabilities, tall, short, fat and thin together, and vividly constructs a seemingly noisy juggling and joyful image, but it goes deep into human beings. Deep in heart and soul. His voice-over and his appearances from start to finish have become an endorsement of his message.
This is really different. There is no doubt that the light and shadow he casts, like a shiny coin, clinking, and will eventually echo history in the future, which seems to be a piece of cake for him.
2016, 5, 19
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