El Topo (El topo) (1970)

Movie Journal: 2013 (27 movies items)

"wtf did i just watch"

New-to-Me Films of 2013 (189 movies items)

"El Topo is the type of film one shouldn't even try to understand. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky creates a truly unique kind of film, one that merges conventions of western and avant garde cinema. Ultra symbolic (almost irritatingly so), it is a tale of an epic journey toward redemption, the likes of which have not been done before. It is bizarre, surreal, perplexing, and while many scenes are intriguing, just as many can be quite frustrating. Overall, it isn't quite as interesting as some of the"

January 2013 Film Diary (14 movies items)

" rewatched"

Movies Watched in 2013 (250 movies items)

"January 21st I can't believe how many movies I've been watching that have "Rebecca Effect""

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" Spanish. Surreal. Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Not Jodorowsky's first movie, but his first good one. It makes a lot more sense than Holy Mountain. It has an actual plot. The imagery isn't as relentless. Unfortunately, it kind of falls apart a little towards the end. The first half of the movie is a riff on Westerns. It's about a gunfighter named El Topo, who claims to be God, who hunts down and kills a group of bandits. He rescues a woman (and abandons his son), who convinces him to d"