This is the Alejandro Jordowsky film not the old silent one about mountain climbing, anyway this film had pretty much everything I wanted out of a movie. I've had it now for about a week and I've watched it over and over. Every frame is visually engaging, it's probably the most symbolism heavy film I've ever seen, but not in an eliptic David Lynch, these are symbols, not emblems, and they represent ideas not included in the film as opposed to representing ideas in the film, simple right? Its a pinnacle merger of surrealism, satire, philosophy, and science fiction. The sets, the images and the story itself blow me away, and the ideas though chaotic at first flow together seamlessly in the conclusion.
This is not a druggie film with no plot and a bunch of crazy stuff, it might appear that way if you view it on drugs, or with no attempt to think about what appears on the screen after it's gone, but the film itself is actually quite complex, almost too complex. Jodorowsky is weaving together a lot of escoteric threads and symbols(the first scene is the Japanse Tea Ceremony) together to tell an quite simple story about the various ways we(and the contemporary audience of the 70's) attempt to escape death. If you interested in watching a gifted film maker at the height of his game paint a truly unique portrait of the world, look no further. If you want something truly bizarre and different because you've seen everything, see it. If you don't care much for symbolism, allegory, or metaphor, avoid this at all costs, there is no realsim here, but there is brilliance, and I don't use that word lightly.
This is not a druggie film with no plot and a bunch of crazy stuff, it might appear that way if you view it on drugs, or with no attempt to think about what appears on the screen after it's gone, but the film itself is actually quite complex, almost too complex. Jodorowsky is weaving together a lot of escoteric threads and symbols(the first scene is the Japanse Tea Ceremony) together to tell an quite simple story about the various ways we(and the contemporary audience of the 70's) attempt to escape death. If you interested in watching a gifted film maker at the height of his game paint a truly unique portrait of the world, look no further. If you want something truly bizarre and different because you've seen everything, see it. If you don't care much for symbolism, allegory, or metaphor, avoid this at all costs, there is no realsim here, but there is brilliance, and I don't use that word lightly.