Alejandro Jodorows, the director who is rich in evil and charming films, I have actually seen three of his films, an autobiographical "Poems Without End", a documentary "Jodorows" produced for the process that failed to make a film "The Dunes of Vsky", the third part is this "Holy Mountain". One is more bizarre than the other, so "dirty" that the eyes are afraid to open, but they are wide open in amazement. He exposes characters, makes blood spurt, separates limbs, and even turns feces into gold. You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold. It is incredible that you can also realize the human society in these grotesque scenes full of imagination. Nature.
When the eyes begin to adjust to his unadorned primitiveness, when the humorous meaning of dung turning into gold can be understood, the wind of the film changes, and the alchemist gathers 9 disciples and goes to the legendary holy mountain to find the nine undead old people on the mountain. , access the eternal secret of conquering death. Before setting off, they burned all their belongings and wax statues representing themselves, gave up everything, and went on their way calmly.
These disciples are from different planets. A manufacturer from Venus whose only purpose is to make people look better; a weapons maker from Mars; an art dealer from Jupiter; a wargame maker from Saturn; A government financial policy advisor; a police chief from Neptune; and an architect from Pluto. It must seem absurd, but it is actually very symbolic, and it is easy to associate with the prototype in life.
And the protagonist throughout the play is a man who looks exactly like Jesus, and he is actually a thief. (So if you have religious beliefs, you can still watch it)
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In the end, you think he can't take it anymore, the stall is so big, and the holy mountain has reached the top, so where is the secret of immortality? The wonderful thing is that he said, "This is just a movie, the camera is pulled back..." Only then did you realize that the director who created so many dreams is a realist who is absolutely awake and absolutely rational. His movies are over, myths are over, and immortality No, we have to break the illusion, get away from the holy mountain, and return to our real life. As he himself said, "Cinema is making audiences stupid, it's treating them like babies." The film is to wake up the audience. The director who studied religion has been anti-religion, and all his films are In anti-religion, because religion is deception.
Really interesting, real, rational person. After listening to his interview, I will love him even more.
He said, how good it is to get old, people become wiser. It's wonderful to grow old, because it makes you wiser.
He said, it’s okay if people can’t live forever, but how boring it is, after immortality, life will not be exciting. And it is wonderful to die, because being immortal would be so boring!
He said that failure to make a movie is a failure, and failure is not nothing, and if you fail, you must re-select the path forward. I didn't make the film, but failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths
He also said: First precept is, "Think of the work, not about the result." Second, "Let your work express your inner god." And third, "Approach your work as you would a sacred sacrifice." , who do not say failure lightly.
And his fun can make us see the character in the movie sitting on the flush toilet nearly two meters high, he said that dropping feces will generate energy... Haha
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