El Topo
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Actor: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Brontis Jodorowsky, Jos? Legarreta, Jos? Luis Fern?ndezDirector: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Brand: Unknown
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of El Topo
DVD Review: Incredibly strange and violent, but definitely worth watching.
Summary: 3 Stars
This was lent to me by a good friend who is really into movies nobody has ever heard of. It's very weird, and my girlfriend and I had many moments in which we exclaimed "What the f***?". The first part of the movie is essentially what the bible would be if it was also an ultra violent, psychedelic, western flick. The second part still contains references to the bible, bu to me at least, seemed as if it was referring more to the continued corruption of religion (namely Christianity in this case) and the corruption of our society in general. The directing and cinematography is solid, but the surprising highlight is the unanimously good acting with the exception of the girl chosen to portray Alejandro Jodorowsky's twisted version of Eve/Women. All in all it's a very interesting movie that's certainly worth watching if you're into cult movies, but if you're sensitive about violence or religion stay far away.DVD Review: Mentally scaring
Summary: 1 Stars
My ethnic studies teacher showed this in class one day, and I was in no way ready for the extreme violence and perversion in the first 20 minutes of the film. I was sick to my stomach and couldn't finish it. And after reading the plot summary, I'm glad I never finished it. It even gave me nightmares.
NOT for the weak at heart (or of stomach).
DVD Review: Snore
Summary: 1 Stars
About 90 minutes into this movie I turned to my lover and said 'This is the worst movie I've ever seen.'
And I've seen some pretty bad movies, believe me!
DVD Review: INTERESTING...VISUALLTY THOUGHT PROVOKING
Summary: 5 Stars
I originally saw this movie in a bar with no sound and viewed it in black and white......I then purchased it on Amazon and found out it is not in black and white, which is great because it is important to see the blood shed in full color. This movie makes no sense at all and at the same time makes absolute sense.....I guess you can call it an art film, but I feel like the movie has so many messages in it, you just have to open your mind to enjoy it as a journey.....I say get it!!!! Also the interview with the creator is very interesting..I would have liked it to be longer in the special featuresDVD Review: Not for the weak of heart...
Summary: 3 Stars
"El Topo" was one of the first midnight-movie cult hits because of its visually stunning, mentally exciting indulgence in gratuitous sex and exaggerated violence...
Avenging angel El Topo--meant to be wise and mystical--rides into a town whose population has just been massacred... He guns down some of the cruel and perverse bandits responsible and brutally punishes their leader... He leaves his seven-year-old son with some monks and goes away with the gang leader's woman, Mara...
In the desert sands, El Topo and Mara make love, and she quickly falls in love with him... After their frantic love-making, she tells him that he can prove that he's the 'best' by killing the Four Masters...
For no apparent reason other than to please Mara, El Topo begins his mission, defeating and killing each of the Four Masters...
The film has been quite controversial... It lacks clarity and has painful emotions that make it quite compelling...
Description of El Topo
It was the landmark cult film that began the whole Midnight Movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. EL TOPO was the most talked about, most controversial quasi-Western head trip ever made, transforming the way risk-taking audiences, seeking mainstream Hollywood alternatives, watched edgy underground films. Classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet Zen Buddhism and the Bible as master gunfighter and cosmic mystic El Topo (played by writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky) must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on an ever- increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self- enlightenment and surreal resurrection. -Alan JonesEl Topo's surrealism is more slapstick than Jodorwosky's brilliant follow-up, Holy Mountain, making it more akin to a spaghetti western than a psychedelic journey through the subconscious. The director stars as the gunfighter, El Topo (The Mole), who first gives his 7-year old son (played by real life son, Brontis Jodorowsky) a glimpse of manhood in the form of weaponry, then abandons him for a horseback revenge trip focused on a heartless team of raping, pillaging bandits. Along the way, he meets Mara (Mara Lorenzio), whose tough love encourages him to become a monk. On El Topo's new quest, he encounters spiritual leaders and endures a series of personal realizations about his past violence. Absurd moments, such as when the viewer first encounters the bandits sniffing and drooling over high-heeled women's shoes out in the desert, make El Topo satirically wry. Brutal scenes in which rivers of blood run through towns, or people slaughter each other in firing lines, remind the viewer of Mexico's bloody history. The mixture of ironic humor and violence in El Topo encapsulates Jodorowky's vision of a world in which reality and the imagination are fused, yet completely separate. This paradox, of great thematic concern in all of Jodorowsky's films, is most resonant in El Topo when Mara and The Mole sadistically communicate with whips, guns, and knives. As Holy Mountain's religious message centers wholly around The Alchemist's transformation of Jesus, El Topo introduces love between man and woman into the symbolic mix, compensating for the divine settings and imaginative characters that elucidate the protagonist's enlightenment in the later Holy Mountain. Only by viewing the two films as a double feature will one get the full power of Jodorowsky's Buddhist message, one of self-sacrifice and suffering towards a greater end. --Trinie Dalton
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