El Topo. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970.
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Edition screened: Included in Anchor Bay 4-DVD/2-CD set The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, released 2007. Spanish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 125 minutes.
Edition screened: Included in Anchor Bay 4-DVD/2-CD set The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, released 2007. Spanish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 125 minutes.
Summary: Graphic depictions of dead and dying animals.
Details:
1) At 3:45, El Topo enters a bloodied village littered with slain humans and graphically disemboweled horses.
2) At 59:00, a black bird stands on a dead domestic white rabbit, the latter having blood trails coming from its eye sockets. This scene comes with no warning, immediately after a whipping victim’s wounds are kissed by a second woman and the two embrace in the desert. The dead white rabbit scene leads to El Topo entering the camp of a man who lives among dozens of uncaged domestic rabbits, some alive, some dead, and some in the throws of death. The dying rabbits are profuse and their agony clearly is real. The scene ends with a quick presentation of two butchered birds.
Comments for Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973) also apply to El Topo.
