There are a lot of Western patterns and bridges in "The Mole", rough textures and slightly inferior editing, rich and obscure metaphors. The rich use of colors and sophisticated installation art in "Holy Mountain", a lot of surrealism and satire on modern technology, cultural industry, and instrumental rationality are quite the style of Luis Buñuel. And "Holy Blood" has made a subtraction on the basis of the first two parts. The story is clearer and clearer, with fewer characters, easier to understand, less mystery and magic, and less chaos and disorder. What remains unchanged is Jodorowsky's zeal for religion and religious reflection, his obsession with abnormality, his fascination with sex, his analysis of violence, and his thirst for blood plasma.
The film sets the background of the characters in a circus, with a lot of circus performances and loud noises, colorful costumes, and exaggerated performances, as if being in a Fellini movie. At first, Fenix’s mother blocked the government from demolishing the church outside the church, and then the priest entered the church, where the mother introduced her church to the priest. In the place where she bled, people dug a pool to store water and built a church, named "Holy Blood". The priest found that the holy blood in the pool was made of paint, so he decided that the mother's church was a cult and ordered the church to be demolished. In this way, the upbringing that symbolized faith collapsed, and the believers fled, but the collapse of the church did not mean the disintegration of faith, and faith would exist in other forms of externalization. Fenix's father, a circus leader, was good at flying knives and used it to flirt with tattooed circus actresses. His father carved an eagle's totem on Fenix's chest, making him a man. And Fenix had a crush on the dumb girl in the circus. Fenix peeked at his parents' sex, and then witnessed the death of the circus elephant. The blood spurted out of the trunk of the elephant before death was as the director's style was in the past... During the performance, the mother saw the father who was cheating with the mistress, The possessive and controlling mother burned the father's genitals with a caustic liquid, while the father slashed both of his mother's arms with a knife, and then the father committed suicide. So far, the dead mother with the broken arm has become a saint of the faith, and she has become the new god of the sect. His mother's beliefs, his father's cheating, his parents' sex, his mother's broken arm, his father's tragic death, Fenix's childhood was full of abnormal elements, and he was sent to a lunatic asylum... When he grew up and escaped from the lunatic asylum After that, everything is human. Once father's mistress became a prostitute and betrayed the mute girl and almost dragged her into the water. And Fenix became the left and right hands of the imaginary "mother", performing as one on the stage, and often in life as one eating, playing the piano, lying together even when sleeping, and even kissing each other. His complex feelings for his mother are both religious worship and Oedipus complex, sometimes like a believer and sometimes like a lover. The mother's strong desire to control also controls Fenix's consciousness, thoughts and even behavior like religion. Together, they killed their father's mistress, the tattooed woman. The close-up of the knife stabbing at the body, the close-up of the shadow of the knife and the arm on the wall, the screaming woman, the tugged curtain, everything has to be reminiscent of Hitchcock's "Psycho". Fenix's father-like flirting with flamboyant strippers in theaters with throwing knives is his imitation of his father, of "being a man." Jealous mother but coercive The hands of the controlling son killed the actress...the sturdy, father-like shemale he was obsessed with was also killed by his mother with one hand, the mother controlled him every moment, and the father influenced him every moment . The buried land is full of corpses, facing questions from many dead souls, when seeing the beloved mute girl, when facing the mother's killing intent for the mute girl, love becomes a good medicine to free yourself from confinement and find yourself. The knife that should have been inserted into the dumb girl's body was inserted into the mother's body. Old beliefs crumbled, and now only love remains. Facing the police, Fenix raised his hands in joy, and he felt freedom for the first time. Maybe he will spend the rest of his life in a lunatic asylum, but mental imprisonment is a more desperate prison than physical imprisonment. Now, he can rebuild his beliefs, rebuild everything, and become that absolutely free existence in the name of love, like the eagle gesture made by the dumb woman on his chest.
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