I dare not say that this is a film review, it can only be regarded as an afterthought.
I didn't know the director or the plot before watching the movie, so I tried it out on the recommendation of a friend.
I dare not say that my interpretation of the film is far from the level of the director, and I can't understand many scenes and fragments, but the feeling the film gives me is so profound.
The plot is simple, it is the journey of the protagonist and 8 other people to find the holy mountain under the leadership of the mentor.
But the entire viewing process has become a process for the audience (or me) to find the holy mountain.
The movie is full of a lot of weird and absurd scenes. At first, I just thought the movie was weird. There are many religious elements, plus the weird soundtrack, which gave me a cult flavor; I felt weird.
Later, more and more irony, metaphor. The various encounters of the protagonist like Christ make people deeply feel that the director is nakedly satirizing religion, especially Christianity. Before the protagonist goes to the tower to meet a mentor or a warlock, it seems to be a metaphor for the local social or historical phenomenon (guess, don't know the history of Mexico).
The protagonist is enlightened under the guidance of his mentor (it turned out to be just shit, but it can be turned into gold; the gold that he pursues is actually just shit), and then leads 8 other companions to embark on a journey to pursue the holy mountain. When introducing these 8 companions who represent different occupations and stars in society, it is a larger black humor, satirizing various phenomena of human society as absurd and bizarre as they are in front of the camera. When the movie saw this, I felt that the director was really bold. He made a lot of religious beliefs before, and now he makes jokes about human society. (In fact, many scenes and shots are incomprehensible, and I don’t know astrology or astrology, and I don’t know what it means. Later, Baidu looked at the original director who had studied tarot cards in depth. No wonder the movie is so “weird”).
After introducing the companions, in fact, more than half of the movie has been played. Before embarking on the path to find the holy mountain, let go of the mundane. What is a holy mountain, concepts such as "seeking the Tao", "becoming an immortal", "becoming a Buddha", "immortality", "obtaining the Tao", etc., are all holy mountains. Maybe the spirit reaches a certain level, that is, to find the holy mountain. Abandon the mundane, abandon the self, and purely pursue the improvement of the spiritual realm.
Then the movie goes to a weirder place (because there is no logic before and after), the various scenes and pictures in the movie here seem to explain the truth, the unity of all things, the cycle of life and death, the laws of nature, listening to the world, feeling the world, giving up self , without self, bury self, live and die, return to nothingness.
But here is a scene where there are only 8 people and there is no protagonist because the protagonist doesn't give up everything completely.
Before boarding the boat, the instructor also taught the protagonist that imagining Christ-like miracles and doing good deeds are only interfering with the operation of the world itself, and not necessarily bringing good results. Let the protagonist completely abandon the past and abandon friends on the boat.
Finally reached the holy mountain, but it was a bigger black humor, a bigger irony. There is joy on the holy mountain. People of all kinds of costumes and eras, taking the cemetery as the holy mountain, are narrating the wrong understanding of the holy mountain. Still did not reach the destination, only to continue the journey.
The next journey is even more difficult, accepting the difficulty and embracing the world, to truly abandon the self, the flesh, and the feeling.
In the last section of the road, there are various hallucinations of death, perhaps a repentance of various kinds of life.
Finally, as long as you kill "them" at the top of the mountain, you can reach the real holy mountain.
At this time, the mentor told the protagonist that he did not need a mentor, that he was his own mentor, and let the protagonist kill him, but what the protagonist hacked to death was a sacrifice. Then the tutor told the protagonist that the woman with the orangutan had been following them just because she loved the protagonist. The tutor asked her to give up the so-called holy mountain, and she could achieve immortality through love, as if she was telling everyone that love is actually another at the holy mountain.
When the rest climbed the holy mountain and found that the people above were fake, the teacher told them the real secret, or the truth, mortals will always be mortals, not immortal, not gods, the journey is not over, never will There is an end, where is the journey? Where is the end? This is just a movie, we want to return to reality, the journey is in your real life, don't indulge and hallucinations, find your own holy mountain in your own life.
Looking back on the entire viewing process, it turned out to be a journey of "searching for the holy mountain". The director is really great.
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