I know that explaining why you rate something may be overrated, but I'm giving it a shot for those interested and not just liking or disliking that I gave this a 6. As I already hinted at in the summary line, it is about the animals in here in general and the bunnies in particular! The fact that actual animals died in the making of this. Now that is one thing ... but the fact that they died because of the heat they were exposed to ... Jodorowsky himself says he wouldn't be doing this nowadays and thought back then that the sacrifice was something natural/necessary. Now as a big friend of animals but even more so of bunnies I am almost baffled by myself not giving this an even lower vote, but I did try to take into account that he saw the error of his way and the rest of the movie.
And now we can dive into that: a movie that seems to be divided into smaller parts. Which also is sort of true, because apparently Jodorowsky would not have gotten away with the things he depicts here, if he had claimed and told authorities back then what he was up to. Short movies on the other hand could be made at any point. Jodorowsky also plays the main role, which you may or may not appreciate. I'd say about 3/4 of the movie work very well ... and then you get an end part that seems completely detached from the rest.
Then again this is Jodorowsky, so while the shooting short movies may be one "excuse", the other explanation would just be he did his own thing and tried things out ... anything spiritual that came to mind - his mind that is. Although as a viewer you are encouraged to think a lot ... you have to connect the dots ... and/or listen to his interviews/audio commentaries to find out what he actually meant to tell us there. Some symbolism is quite easy to decrypt ... other things not so much. Even some of his fans have a different view on what it means than the main man himself - which in now way is or has to be something bad.
The movie is quite infamous for being his most bloody one yet - and it is true, if you are easily offended ... it is probably better if you do not watch this at all. Then there is also nudity and a lot of weird characters doing weird things ... symbolically speaking and all that. Let's just say you have to be in the right frame of mind. And seeing a kid being naked ... now the kid himself (interviewed for the disc/company I bought) was not scarred or at least seem to have grown up more than ok. That doesn't mean that some people won't have issues with that though ... kind of like me being really mad about the bunnies ...
And now we can dive into that: a movie that seems to be divided into smaller parts. Which also is sort of true, because apparently Jodorowsky would not have gotten away with the things he depicts here, if he had claimed and told authorities back then what he was up to. Short movies on the other hand could be made at any point. Jodorowsky also plays the main role, which you may or may not appreciate. I'd say about 3/4 of the movie work very well ... and then you get an end part that seems completely detached from the rest.
Then again this is Jodorowsky, so while the shooting short movies may be one "excuse", the other explanation would just be he did his own thing and tried things out ... anything spiritual that came to mind - his mind that is. Although as a viewer you are encouraged to think a lot ... you have to connect the dots ... and/or listen to his interviews/audio commentaries to find out what he actually meant to tell us there. Some symbolism is quite easy to decrypt ... other things not so much. Even some of his fans have a different view on what it means than the main man himself - which in now way is or has to be something bad.
The movie is quite infamous for being his most bloody one yet - and it is true, if you are easily offended ... it is probably better if you do not watch this at all. Then there is also nudity and a lot of weird characters doing weird things ... symbolically speaking and all that. Let's just say you have to be in the right frame of mind. And seeing a kid being naked ... now the kid himself (interviewed for the disc/company I bought) was not scarred or at least seem to have grown up more than ok. That doesn't mean that some people won't have issues with that though ... kind of like me being really mad about the bunnies ...