How to watch CULT films without changing your face

Barrett 2022-09-18 21:24:47

Dance of Reality (2013)
8.7
2013 / Chile / Biography / Alessandro Jodorowsky / Alessandro Jodorowsky Pamela Flores

The first answer is

Just watch a few more ?

Because the girl who has insomnia late at night has not watched movies seriously for a long time, so I am bored to write an inexplicable movie review to commemorate my increasingly weird taste

No discrimination whatsoever but even I, who have watched rocky horror picture show n times (Eddie's teddy is really cool), saw the classic elements in Jodorowsky's mole for the first time: freak fetish The bloody death and the poor set still made me suffer a double crit from the psychological and physical discomfort when I was young

But Mole Holy Blood (AKA Blasphemy Trilogy) every frame is a surprise Brain hole plot The cinematography editing and the degree of perversion are unexpected For me two or three years ago, my whole person was a "holy crappp movie" It turns out that I can still shoot like this!!!" Then he entered the cult pit and was full of good feelings for this white-haired old man who likes to make faces and pit sons

Screenshot from the little boy in the mole is the son of Jodorowsky

Later, I gradually began to think about the meaning of the movie and then I felt that my senior spring really needs to go up and down western religion ?

The following contains a lot of spoilers and adds a nearly eighteen half bottle of vinegar. A naive understanding of this reality dance. Hope it can bring a little...inspiration to cult friends who like jodorowsky? ?

Feature film begins:

Screenshot from Reality Dance Jodorowsky starred in narrator The blond boy in the narrator is the image of Jodorowsky's childhood

First of all, it's an autobiography about Jodorowsky's childhood. The beginning of the film is very cool and it's an inexplicable quote about money.

The screenshot is from the dance of reality. This quote is inexplicable. Anyway, I can't get it.

Then came the blond young Jodorowsky, a young boy with beautiful blond hair, a very obvious secondary sexuality, a mother who spoke like a drama, a discriminated Jewish identity and a very oppressive firefighter father.

The small city of Tokoplia, where Jodorowsky lives, is disturbed under the Chilean dictatorship: Discrimination against Jews Discrimination against disabled miners Inhumane treatment of patients with the Black Death Execution of redundant political parties No protection for children

Disabled miners discriminated against by Jodorowsky
The idol Stalin who satirized Jodorowsky's father
echoes the money in the title

The mother believed that little Jodorowsky was the reincarnation of her father, forcing Jodorowsky to keep his long hair and stern father disliked Jodorowsky's lack of masculinity, forcing Jodorovsky to lose weight. Going long hair and subjecting Jodorowsky to all kinds of ordeals

Jodorowsky collapsed at a funeral after witnessing the tragic death of a firefighter. He was laughed at as coward by his father's colleagues. Since then, his father resigned as a firefighter and determined to become a hero to prove himself and his national dignity. Then he It's like dying to give water to the Black Death patients and get infected with the Black Death

Firefighter's Funeral
Firefighter's Funeral

The god-stick mother saves the father in a very subtle and indescribable way. The desperate atheist father ends up on a journey to avenge the dictator, misses the chance to kill the dictator, and successfully kills the dictator's horse to make the dictator The person felt heartbroken, lost, lost, lost consciousness, his father was imprisoned by a dwarf and cared for by his mother, who was then used by his mother to ask God's stone to wake up. Unexpectedly, his disabled fingers could only bend the dwarf. Because of his father's departure, he was heartbroken and hanged himself. Christian saved but was tortured by nazi as a blasphemer because he couldn't straighten his fingers Ultimate dictator fled Argentine revolutionaries rescued his brutally beaten father and sent him home The magic mother saved in a way that was not subtle and can be described The father's disability and the family of three have since left the land of right and wrong

Well, a running account

A family of three hugging tightly at the end of the film
The epitome of the meeting when leaving the land of right and wrong the red mascot is the little boy himself the rest of the black and white portraits are everything he has been through
Father caught by Nazi watch his fingers explode
Mother throws a stone into the sky and wakes up father's stone when she asks God
The Black Death group that the father tried to save

In short, this is a sad but not sad story, but inexplicably gives people a sense of powerlessness. Maybe the young Jodorowsky is too simple, fragile and strong, and the father is always so resonant. The wonderful way of speaking and the irresistible The sexiness described is physically and psychologically uncomfortable, the identity of the Jewish people being discriminated against, the grooms who bury themselves and the down-to-earth fathers and the dictators who agonize over the dead horses in the film feel both absurd and empathetic

groom asking for self burial
Jodorowsky Jr., who tried to commit suicide under the oppression of his father and the accidental death of his friend, and Jodorowsky as a narrator

But these are not the point

The point is that God is faith

The achievement of the mother symbolizes the power of religion and belief The encounter of the father symbolizes the vulnerability of mortals to religion and gods

One of my favorite shots: Jodorowsky after his father left was afraid of the darkness. Mother painted Jodorowsky in carbon black, making him symbolically a part of the darkness, echoing the previous stay unnoticed and also symbolizing The relationship between suffering and people

The symbol of the mother is obvious. The wonderful way of speaking of the mother probably implies the fact that she is not an ordinary person. At the same time, she solved the difficulties and problems of Jodorowsky with the help of divine power and cured his father's black death and disability. One point has already explained the extraordinaryness of motherhood. I personally like a sentence my mother said: Cuando te sientes desesperado, siempre escucha a tu corazon (a good bowl of chicken soup

mother's chicken soup
mother's chicken soup

The experience and image of the mother and father are more enigmatic

From the beginning, the father was the tough head of the family, who insisted on supporting atheism, by throwing away Jodorowsky's necklace, expressing triple denial of Catholic Islam and Judaism, and finally honing in suffering, being rescued by the godly mother and being pious The believer's redemption was finally shaped by the photographer and director into the image of jesus

Father tortured by nazi looks like crucified Jesus

This journey of my father is more like a confused mortal redeeming himself by faith in the floating world. In the end, the father did not admit his faith, but the film uses the mother's way of redeeming the father and the father's answer to nazi's torture are cleverly pointed out. the theme of the video

¿ quen es don jose?

Es tu, es tu padre, es tu hijo, es yo, es todo el mundo

because don jose blasphemed nazi's father
for not being able to answer quen es don jose tormented father

The theme of the film is also very consistent with Jodorowsky's consistent style: God is faith is himself

At the end of the film, Jodorowsky turns into a phantom and a narrator to accompany the little Jodorowsky family away

The parting at the end of the film seems to be the little Jodorowsky saying goodbye and the old Jodorowsky saying that he has not seen his childhood for a long time.

I don't want to go into more detail about Freud and other things I don't know much about

But childhood memories will always remain in our subconscious and become spiritual wealth that we cannot give up

el fin

So be it

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Extended Reading

The Dance of Reality quotes

  • Alejandro as a child: The darkness is swallowing everything. It's going to devour us.

    Sara: Alejandrito, do I love you?

    Alejandro as a child: Yes, Mama.

    Sara: How much?

    Alejandro as a child: From the sky to the earth.

    Sara: This is not my love, it comes from God. I am merely the sender. As God creates all, so we all radiate His love. My son, the darkness loves you as much as I do, for it is God's shadow.

  • Alejandro as an Adult: [From film trailer] You and I, have only been memories, never reality. Something is dreaming us, surrender yourself to illusion. Live! Everything that you will become, you already are. What you search for, is already within you. Rejoice in your sufferings, thanks to them, you will reach me.