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. Into this swirling blood desert. The appearance of the all-seeing eye is like a symbol of Satanism. Christians all smile with relief when they see the gangster being killed, and even kill the gangster directly. The believers who are finally taught are also suspicious of their faith and leave. No wonder it's called one of the "blasphemy trilogy."
The film is divided into two parts. In the first half, a gunman in black walks through the desert with his naked son. He does justice to a massacre that was slaughtered, and kills the villains headed by the "head of the regiment". The son stayed in the town and continued on the road with Goldilocks. On the way, Goldilocks told the black gunman about the legend of the four great masters in the desert, and asked the black gunman to kill them. After completing the arduous task, the gunman in black was lost in "how lonely it is to be invincible", and the blonde girl also left with the black-haired girl. In the second half, the gunman in black was rescued by a group of freaks. After many years, he woke up in a cave and vowed to open a passage to the town for these freaks born from consanguineous marriages. However, when the passage was opened, it became the death of all.
Although the film is full of killing, blood, injury, pain, and torture, it still reminds people of the constant walking and searching of the male protagonist in "Paris in Texas". The journey of the gunman in black in the desert is like a rotting poem, dipped in the juice of a corpse and written, allowing a life to perish. But which demise has nothing to do with rebirth? The bones are turned into style, wood, and every breath of the living. Death does not exist, and life is not important.
The story begins in the desert with a black gunman taking his naked son to find a suitable grave to bury his mother's photo and his son's favorite toy. They symbolize weakness and weakness, the gunman in black's understanding of a tough guy who doesn't get in the way. The woman in the sand is half-buried, as if mocking the long-distance traveler. He will find love and care for the rest of his life. Among the four masters he killed, some gave birth to sweet honeycombs, some were wrapped in exquisite objects, and some went away with flames. What’s more, they didn’t care about being killed at all, and only used suicide as a mockery. What is the meaning of life and what should you be looking for? The vast desert has an end.
Although it is a bit cruel, it has to be said that the silence in the small town is like a style oil painting: the white horse that was cut open was lying on the ground with its limbs open, as if it was a genital after being ravaged; another horse that was cut open and the little girl's body The corpses are lying together, and the metaphor can be imagined.
Sex is also an extremely important component in the film. What the film shows is not only the primitive animal nature that is desolate and dehumanized, but the confusion brought about by the multiplicity and complexity of sex: the naked woman composed of dried fruits is covered on the stone, and the gangsters pounce on it. Going up and eating; while the real women are killed, the male believers are reduced to sex toys for the gangsters, or dance, or make up; the blonde girl ends up rubbing against the black girl Lily; and the old women force Holding the body of the young black man and shouting that he was raped; the gangster played the game of cutting bananas with a knife, and the head of the regiment was immediately castrated after his majesty. People seem to be on the edge of ethics and morality, unable to endure the irreconcilable id and ego, revelry with revenge, and even self-destruction.
Sex is confused and gender is reversed. The women of the desert masters can only utter the screams of birds, while the voice of the woman, the leader of the small town cult "Dame", is as rough and hoarse as that of a man. Sex requires indulgence, but only the gunman in black has really achieved the mission of procreating. After he set himself on fire, the dwarf woman finally gave birth to another child for him. And his son, woman, and newborn, embark on a new journey. Everyone has their own doubts to answer, and everyone has their own adventures to complete.
Red underwear is probably a kind of bright and cruel fun, the regiment leader was castrated in red underwear, and the gunman in black set himself on fire in underwear with red hearts.
The South American original western style shown in the film is particularly cruel, and spares no effort to use blasting, blood plasma and other means to try to carve the barbarity and brutality into the bones. The wall is full of people standing facing the wall, and the gangsters kill them at will; the four masters stay in the desert, and inexplicably are challenged to give their lives one by one; the slaves in the big town only have the right to be humiliated and accused, the only difference in life is It's the way to die. And in this mythical country full of magical brain circuits, there is also belief.
Christian beliefs, when they first appeared, they waited against the wall to die. However, rather than being killed by a single shot, the gangsters preferred to paint them red with blood and ride on them to humiliate them; then they appeared in the big town and were attacked by demons. It looks like Satanism, the whole town is covered with the pattern of triangular eyes, people have done dirty and hypocritical deeds in the name of God, forcibly imprinted the pattern of the all-seeing eye on people, murder and adultery are all useless. Extreme; ironic that after the so-called miracle (Russian roulette) led to the death of a young boy, the gunman's son ripped open all the patterns, only to find the real cross of Christ behind the all-seeing eye, ironic; faith; In the end, the Son of Christ threw away the clothes of the believers without hesitation, put on the clothes of his former father, and embarked on the road of search.
Maybe to find Godot, maybe to find another other person as hell.
I like the scene where the gunman in black creates miracles. The editing is like a dream, like the absurd and crazy fairy tales in the book all come true: he kneels at the feet of the woman like a god, digging out soft eggs from the ground under his feet; Shoot randomly at the rocks in the desert, and springs will spring up on the rocks. The power that should belong to God is manifested from him, this is not ordinary rebelliousness. However, with the power of God, but without the will of God, you will always be punished. So the blonde woman also had this ability and left him without hesitation.
And his death finally became a miracle. Perhaps the martyrdom was doomed from the moment he screamed and was reborn from under the legs of the old woman in the cave. After slaughtering all the hypocritical and cruel believers, he ended his journey by self-immolation. And after his death, the mellow honeycomb also appeared in the stone.
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