Santa Sangre by Alejandro Jodorowsky: Impact of Parents’ Death on a Child

Religiously grotesque and lustful, only surrealistically beautiful is the film Santa Sangre (1989) by religious cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film portrays, in a brutal manner, the impact brought upon the deaths of a mother and father unto a child left orphan. Leading role Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky), after witnessing his fathers suicide (slit throat) and subsequently knowing that his father had cut-off his mothers arms before slit himself, grows up heavily traumatized. He is first shown in the film, in adulthood, inwardly of a mental institution, naked, eating a whole fish, uncooked.With this film you volition take a plunge in cold, actually deep pissing so many colors and shapes so many mysteries fantastic and marvellous monsters in short, the human mind. Alejandro Jodorowsky achieves other astonishing masterpiece by bring his own personal background into the film. In his early years, he wise(p) the arts of trapeze and miming he all the same studied with the gra nd Marcel Marceau. oneness of his first employers was a Circus in Chile, his hometown. There he took a job as a clown and started to absorb the mysterious ways and trickeries the overt awes and cheers at circuses.Besides the colorful clowns and the saddening mimes, there is also another fundamental element that takes place in the film religion. Fenixs mother, Concha, is the sacred and moral element in the film. She worships a Mexican church by the name of Santa Sangre (Holy Blood). She acquires a divine strength, or a dark power, that will forever haunt her orphan child, making the witness think twice if the mother is in item dead, alive, or a hallucination or all three put together. She at sea her arms to her adulterous husband, but her son could still be of use, in some manner come to think of it, he still has a fresh equal of arms.The acclaim and height of this film comes not from the awards and/or nominations it has earned, but from the public itself, from the cult foll owers of this great and terror stricken director. Having directed cult icons like El Topo, in 1970, and The Holy Mountain, in 1973, in 1989 he comes back with Santa Sangre to give his audience another taste of surrealism and horror of daub and family, which his followers then, would have expected nothing less than a great work of art. And it delivered, big time. The soundtrack really caught my interest and attention.I found it as amazing and horrifying how the use of classic Latin hits made the movie even more haunting, more intriguing, more agitated. More importantly, was that the soundtrack brought in even more culture into the film. The music very much compensated the fact that the dialogues were all in English even though the film is influence in Mexico and the majority of the cast is Hispanic. Anyway, if music is something that catches your attention, then I am sure you wont mind me listing a a few(prenominal) Besame Mucho by Consuelo Velazquez, Lupita by Damaso Perez Prad o, Cucurrucucu paloma by Tomas Mendez, and Dejame Llorar by Alfonso Esparza Oteo.The Internet Movie Database (www. imdb. com) is a pretty tough crowd when it comes to rating movies. IMDB hits this movie, with over 5000 voters, with a very accurate rating of 7. 6 out of 10. That is a pretty risque rating when it comes to a terror film listed in IMDB. Moreover, acclaimed film connoisseur Robert Ebert writes Santa Sangre is a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions and were not timidly trying to duplicate the latest mass-market formulas. He is definitely right, so please get up buy hit play.