Alexandro Jodorowsky created El Topo as his own approach to the old western flick. The end result was essentially one of the strangest, most beautiful and most violent westerns ever made. The movie is shocking, at times disgusting, but is also, at times, enlightening and uplifting. Next time you want to watch movies online and you want something bizarre, check out El Topo.
The movie follows a black clad gunfighter named El Topo, beginning with him and his son on a quest for revenge. The mother has been killed, and the father has the son bury a photograph of the mother as a symbolic end to his childhood, and a beginning to his adulthood. The two then trek through the desert to find the man responsible for her death.
Upon attaining their revenge, the man and child go separate ways. The man leaves the boy in the care of a church while he leaves with his new lover. Here the movie takes a dramatic turn towards a new story development. The woman wants El Topo to kill the four fastest killers in the desert before she can love him, since she refuses to be with anyone but the strongest. They wander for ten years seeking the men out and killing them one by one.
The four killers are each fascinating characters. There’s one whose assistants are a man with no legs sitting on the shoulders of a man with no arms. Another is burly, strong man who is so incredibly strong and so incredibly in control of that strength that it allows him to build incredibly delicate, fragile structures and objects out of toothpicks, these objects which Topo cannot touch without destroying. The final master is an old man who uses a butterfly net to deflect bullets.
In the end, he has to come to a point of redemption. He goes into a coma and lives in a mountain for five years before waking up, shaving his beard and head, donning a robe and becoming a saint to repent for his previous, murderous lifestyle. He hopes to find forgiveness for himself, but it’s unknown whether or not he is even capable of the forgiveness he hopes to receive.
El Topo reunites with his now-adult son, who has found that the life of a holy man comes with just as many difficulties as the life of a gun fighter. Life is full of difficulties and violence no matter who you are.
The film touches on symbolism from just about every major religion in the history of mankind, from Buddhism to Catholicism to Hinduism. The end result is a film where the symbolism is really an all new beast, in a sense. Because the symbolism draws from so many sources, it’s impossible for anybody but the film’s director to understand them completely, so it really winds up feeling like a whole new religious background invented from the ground up.
El Topo is perhaps one of the most surreal and strange films of any genre. It will, all at once, shock you and uplift you, repulse and enlighten you, and it will leave you feeling positive, confused, and curious. It’s a rare film that asks more questions of the universe than it is capable of answering. Jodorowsky has always been one of the strangest directors of all time, and this may just be his crowning masterpiece.
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March 9th, 2010
Mitchell Calhoun
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