Review of El Topo (1970) by Sarunvit B — 26 Mar 2011
John Lennon and Yoko Ono brought Alejandro Jodorowsky's masterpiece El Topo for the first time in New York at the Elgin Theater. It was screened in the middle of the night. And from then a new underground concept was born, the midnight movies. El Topo is a landmark in independent filmmaking. And I watch it every midnight if I want.
Though El Topo is a surrealistic picture, the plot is very simple and easy to understand. It's not as difficult as some of Fellini's movies that some says. The story is this: A gunman in the old wild, wild, wild west called El Topo (The Mole) who want to become invincible, but first he must fight all the other so-called masters of the desert. In the begining we see El Topo who tells a young naked boy to bury his first toy, a teddybear and a picture of his mother. El Topo has fall in love with a slave woman he saved from one of the masters and leaves with her instead of the little boy who is then left alone with a bunch of munchs.
El Topo is violent, it's spiritual, it's traumatic, it's erotic, It's everything you want it to be. El Topo has least one thing that can engage us one way or the other. This is one hell of a cinematic experience you don't want to miss. The Music is also good.
This review of El Topo (1970) was written by Sarunvit B on 26 Mar 2011.
El Topo has generally received positive reviews.
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