The author of this article: Green Stream
Religion, Philosophy, Folklore, Psychedelic, Modern Art, Primitive Worship, Objectification, Alienation, Saints, Witchcraft, Cults, Magic, Sacrifice, Rebellion......
This is the 1973 film "The Holy Mountain" shot by director Alessandro Jodorowsky.
The following brief introduction is from Douban:
"A thief who looks like Jesus wakes up from the strikings of the children and enters the city with a dwarf who has no hands or feet. A frenzied celebration is going on in the city, with a number of people killed, birds flying out of their guns, and a large number of toads dressed in Indian and European colonial costumes being blown to pieces in the scuffle. The thief took the cross from several men dressed as Roman soldiers, who in turn made countless models of themselves...... The thief climbed up to a tower that could produce gold in full view, and the warlock inside the tower extracted gold from the thief's dung. The warlock used astrology to identify several disciples, who were merchants who produced masks, weapons dealers, artists, toy dealers, government advisors, army commanders, and architects, each of whom represented different planets. The warlock gathered these figures who controlled the country, abandoned everything, and set out for the legendary sacred mountain in search of immortal secrets. © Douban"
Each shot is visually striking, disgusting and fascinating. I wonder if anyone can finish Zokulovsky's film in one go, the mental state that flew up in the 6 and 70s + the nourishment of the magical soil of Latin America.
Jodorowski is a Chilean-Mexican national with many identities: playwright, film director, actor, composer and producer. His father is Russian and his mother is Argentine. He is also a philosopher of comparative religion (with a wide range of references to Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hinduism), a historian, and a psychiatrist. At the age of 16, he began to publish poems, and at the age of 17, he began to participate in pantomime and puppet theater performances......
These elements collided all over his films, and Hollywood at that time also took a fancy to his unique brilliance, wanting him to make Hollywood blockbusters to inject fresh blood into American films, he chose "Dune", but unfortunately it was not completed in the end.
As a spiritual healer, the director can see many scenes similar to Jung's "Red Book" in "The Holy Mountain".
Jung developed his own theory after being trained by Sigmund Freud. Freud insisted that most spiritual problems originated in sexual conflict in infancy and early childhood, and that religion did not play a major role here. Jung's theory insisted on the importance of man's innate impulse towards religion, and that each person could absorb the common feelings of the whole human race, which existed in the subconscious. This theory prompted Jung to study folklore and tribal religious rituals as keys to unlock the secrets of the human mind and subconscious processes. —From the introduction to the Red Book
The religious scenes in The Holy Mountain are reminiscent of the Dutch painter Jheronimus Bosch (1450-1516).
At the end of the 15th century, it was the late Gothic and the early Renaissance, and Bosch's works were brain-opening and mysterious.
I watched a lot of heavy movies at a curious age, most of them could find a sense of art from the of the flower carving, Sodom could watch it while snorting instant noodles, and the only one I felt sick to my stomach when I watched it was "Pink Flamingo".
The heroine of the film, the "Holy Woman", is a super-obese woman who tries to become "the dirtiest person in the world". Footage of poop eating poop (the stool eaten by the actors is real) can be seen everywhere in the film. Director John Waters has shot a series of cult films.
Now I have this feeling when I watch "Holy Mountain". Check the time, Flamingo is 72 years old, Holy Mountain is 73 years old, it's really not strange that this era is like this.
Ding Du's masterpiece "The Erotic History of the Roman Empire" is also full of avant-garde grotesque plots and surreal images. The film was shot in '79, at the end of its era. And after all, Ding Du is full-time to engage in pornography, and disgusting people are just added value.
"The Holy Mountain" is an avant-garde and grotesque artwork that connects the past and the next, integrates the philosophical thinking of the ancestors, and has also become an art for later generations to find inspiration.
This year's Oscar-winning film, "Poor Thing" starring Sister Shi, is its clumsy imitator.
Poor Thing seems to be a fantastical Victorian spectacle, and it's no problem to win the Best Costume award. But in the story, each character has a very stereotypical politically correct identity, and it is boring after seeing half of it. It's all left over from other people's play, talking about women's body exploration, it's not as good as "Flower and Moon Appearance", painting a freak spectacle with a heavy mouth, it's not as good as "Girl Tsubaki", it's more than a female awakening, and it's not as good as "Barbie". On the surface, it looks like she's awakening, but she still needs a man to say I don't mind if you do ji. said that she used her body to explore, but she didn't see any time when she was cool. It's a pity that Sister Shi acted so well.
Riskes, on the other hand, starred in "Falling" in 2006 and was a successful student, but the art style of "Falling" pays homage to Chirico more than Bosch. The film won the 2007 Berlinale Glass Bear Special Mention – Best Film Award and the 2008 Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay. Director Tasim Sim is Indian, born in MV, and his gorgeous style is not inferior to South America.
(TARSEM SINGH) (Director) is one of the highly acclaimed and sought-after directors who is active in today's global advertising scene. Known for his attention to detail, excellent art direction, and superb visual storytelling, he has also made a name for himself in the field of feature films.
Looking back at David Bowie's most glamorous rock music, it was also in the 60s and 70s, under exaggerated and dazzling makeup, it was dramatically expressed, and the glamorous light that blurred gender was used to promote rebellion against the times.
Looking at that era today, it is crazy freedom and colorful depravity, but the people of that era also experienced the rapid progress of science and technology, and there are also many imaginations of the future (that is, we are today), cheering for human beings to fly to the moon, and worrying about science and technology stifling human nature.
They dare to express their true selves, using dramatic exaggeration to express it, and under the gorgeousness and grotesqueness, it is real. When today's artists are not inspired, they always go back and look at it and dig a little. What a treasure trove.