El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert
journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood
totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while
dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual,
mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern
religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo
avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as
his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective,
musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.
El Topo (1970)
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