The Holy Mountain

[BananaForeskin]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, watch the trailer:

Anyone else ever seen this? I'm dying to hear some takes on it. I showed it to some friends last night, and I felt like a kid in the 60s who'd naively brought home some Delysid and passed it around! Got a couple of violent negative reactions, but most of us were totally overwhelmed (in a positive way).

 

[Elicius]

That movie is pretty tripped out. My friend and I watched it with the sound off and let itunes play random songs so I just know the imagery and not much of the plot. Def was a piece of art and the mood of the scenes go so well with different music. And i finally learned where all those paper mache jesii i see in stores came from!

 

[easyrider]

I've seen it; I've also seen El Topo and Santa Sangre. I would hardly consider The Holy Mountain a film, but rather an intense experience. I also view it as a critique or satire of our society in general. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, among others such as The Seventh Seal and The Last Temptation of Christ.

 

[Sublime]

Someone on the nexus recommended this film and I watched it, I was in shock about how messed up and weird it is, but was a great movie in a different way, something I would have never expected, very unique and somewhat disturbing.

 

[justine]

I've seen it; I've also seen El Topo and Santa Sangre. I would hardly consider The Holy Mountain a film, but rather an intense experience. I also view it as a critique or satire of our society in general. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, among others such as The Seventh Seal and The Last Temptation of Christ.

If you liked that you should try watching Oz while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon, it's classic

 

[easyrider]

I've seen it; I've also seen El Topo and Santa Sangre. I would hardly consider The Holy Mountain a film, but rather an intense experience. I also view it as a critique or satire of our society in general. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, among others such as The Seventh Seal and The Last Temptation of Christ.

If you liked that you should try watching Oz while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon, it's classic

Are you referring to the television series?

 

[endlessness]

It is a very impressive film for sure! One of those that will have some scenes marked in your mind forever......

I think a lot of the spiritual/mystic symbolism and imagery is very compelling, as well as the spot-on criticism to modern society and humanity through charicaturized exagerated and graphic scenes.

What I really dont like about the film is the animal cruelty (i.e. blowing up frogs and lizards), and I hear in other films from him there is more. Personally I dont believe in hurting animals for art's sake, and imho goes against what I consider spirituality teaches me (to respect/value life). I think one could have found different solutions for those scenes and still transmit the message he wanted to get across.

 

[justine]

I've seen it; I've also seen El Topo and Santa Sangre. I would hardly consider The Holy Mountain a film, but rather an intense experience. I also view it as a critique or satire of our society in general. It's one of my all-time favorite movies, among others such as The Seventh Seal and The Last Temptation of Christ.

If you liked that you should try watching Oz while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon, it's classic

Are you referring to the television series?

No, I'm referring to The Wizard of Oz (1939).

 

[amor_fati]

Related:
Psychedelia through Film - Other Psychoactives - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Psychomagic (an interview with English subtitles) - Open Discussion - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
Best movie ever - Open Discussion - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus


Jodorowsky's coming out with a sequel to "El Topo" entitled, "Abelcain" or "The Sons of El Topo."

I have this theory that "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain" are somehow sequenced and interlinked, with "Holy Mountain" as a prequel to "El Topo." Though the time-periods of each don't match this sequence, it's not the strongest consideration in the context of these films. The thief of HM would be El Topo in ET, as a messiah having undergone the tutelage of the master (Jodorowsky's character) in HM; furthermore, Jodorowsky's portraying of the master in one and the pupil become master would make a great deal of sense to my thinking. That the master deters the pupil (the thief) from following the path of his presumably past-life as the Christ leads well into the far more complex messiah-figure of El Topo. I see the setting of HM as leading toward apocalypse while ET could almost be considered post-apocalyptic.

Don't read if you haven't seen the film:

Spoiler

I get the feeling toward the end of HM that the master and his fellow pilgrims were not the ones to achieve immortality in the end and instead simply retire from their positions and resolve to a more humble yet durable existence--the original goal of their quest finally irrelevant--while the thief has branched off, obviously destined as an incarnation of the Christ yet bestowed with a higher mode of enlightenment than his previous incarnation; again, leading well into the plot of El Topo.

Anyway, this is how I consider the films, whether or not this was the original intention to any extent.

 

[BananaForeskin]

Did anyone else here feel too much like the guy in the pantheon who spouts jesus-mushroom connections while stoned?

This really was a sort of cinematic holy grail for me, the entire way the movie was filmed, the content, Jesus, etc...
I'm still in some shock from it! It's been sticking in my head, which is ironic, given the ending message.
VERY psychedelic, and I think it really encompassed the loop of experience which the real Holy Mountain involves.

I also read that Jarodowsky spent a week without sleep under the direction of a Zen master, before filming began. DEEP STUFF.

 

[Xt]

I thought it was Great. The intro especially DMT like... no?
El Topo was also fantastic and left field.

Jarodowsky is a character alright, he has done some talks, i think they are online.

 

[SKA]

I thought it was great. The alchemist's "lair" was briliant.
There's 1 woman in that movie that is so supernaturally beautyfull, when I saw her in the Trailer I had to see the movie.

His confusion about the world of people is very similair to mine, which I found very comforting and humorous.