Monday, December 26, 2011

El Topo (1970)

This incredible film by Alejandro Jodorowsky is credited with being one of the first Midnight Movies. It's achieved cult status with its plethora of religious symbols and Eastern philosophic imagery. 

The movie itself follows a lone gunman (Jodorowsky) who is traveling across the desert with his young son. After taking care of some bandits and their Colonel leader, he leaves his son behind and takes up with Mara, a young woman who he rescued. She demands that he challenge the four great masters of the desert. Unfortunately Mara eventually betrays the gunfighter leaving him to die in the desert. Luckily he is rescued by a group of deformed outcasts who nurse him back to health. He then takes it upon himself to dig a tunnel out of the mountain in which they are trapped, freeing them forever.

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