Title: The mountain Sacred
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Years: 1973
Genre: Fantastic, Grotesque
There are movies that have a paradoxical and subversive nature so to be able to become, within a single vision a pivotal experiential point of the viewer's left literally kidnapped not to say struck. With this
"The Holy Mountain" (1973) Alexandro Jodorowsky, the metaphysical discourse started with the previous "El Topo" (also reviewed by me) you absorbing, unsettling and truly transgressive. What before had been maintained on a more philosophical ground, here on the other hand we celebrate the "physicality of things", his being first flesh, blood, body POI and ideology and spirit. A film
ideally divided into three sections:
1) The start
The protagonist, a being in the wild with no rules or morals, he met Guru Alchemist (played by Jodorowsky himself) who instructs him on the mission he wants to entrust . All marked by dances, dream scenes and choreography that would dwarf the Peter Greenway.
2) The disciples
Here we present the co-stars borrowed from their world (which is ours) sick, profane, full of violence and overflowing with grotesque animalism visceral really shocking at times, in an orgy excessive visionary who has been rarely views on the cinema screen (with the exception of Bunuel, Lynch, Cronenberg and some other rare example), with more or less successful inventions of machinery, violence and subjugation of the various techniques of humanity / freaks throughout the world.
3) THE CLIMBING
The hero with his disciples begin to climb symbolic of the Holy Mountain to redeem the world and to understand the ultimate meaning of existence with the stroke of the final scene really unexpected, true culmination of a transgression the excesses.
A shocking film, full of symbolism and excess load brought exasperation where words transgression, heresy, blasphemy, allegory, grotesque, illness, perversion, madness and surrealism terrorism (yes, there are also components of this type ... the rest were still very much alive the ghosts of the Revolution of '68 and beginning to make room for the subversive ideas of '77) combine in a sometimes obsessive and unbalanced but giving us something really VIVO and BUTTON.
I would say a life experience more intense than just watching a movie.
For me ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!
Here are some trivia about movies you find on some sites:
- Shot entirely in Mexico, the film cost about $ 750,000.
- The movie based on "The ascent of Mount Caramel John of the Cross and " Mount Analogue "by Rene Daumal.
- Before filming began, the director remained a week without sleep under the supervision of a Zen master and lived alongside the cast for a month.
- The director wanted actors who were hypnotized before shooting the scenes. The thing could not be done, of course.
- The film would have cost $ 1.5 million, making it the most expensive movie ever produced in Mexico until '73. But then the film was able to keep costs to save half the budgeted disbursement.
- The film was entirely funded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono after the two had managed the distribution of El Topo (1971) in USA.
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