I've watched this movie many times, I love its intensity and style. The scene where the mute girl is walking through the city streets and she meets a man who peels his ear off and tries to stuff it into her face, perhaps mouth...does anyone understand what that's all about? I'm assuming it's some kind of metaphor, but damn, it's weird--I mean the whole movie is weird, but this weirdness didn't seem to mesh with the rest of the weirdness.
shareWell, I think it's meant to emphasize that she's deaf. And that it's done like a horror scene is to emphasize that she's mute - she can't do nothing on the streets alone, which makes you, as a viewer, feel the intense fear of isolation-in-public.
shareJodowrowsky has explained that its a metaphorical rape. She represents innocence and men are continually trying to despoil her.
sharehe is always using subconscience *beep* like fando y lis, eggs are broken. also, in this movie (if im remembering correctly): fenix, as a little boy, makes a cherry appear and gives it to the deaf-mute. right? and this is why he can resolve his trauma: by getting back his cherry.
i do not understand the falling roosters - complimenting the crucified man - somehow?
i disagree that this is his most accessible film (like stated in a user-review)... it is his most human, making it all the more horrific. but when you blind yourself from emotional performances, it is truly amazing. absolutely beautiful.
I believe everyone else pretty much explined it in full, but in my own oppinion I think it is suppose to mean that no matter how normal some looks on the outside they can be sick and depraved and even monsterous on the inside.
shareIt's an archetype, in a loose sense of the word I suppose. He's not so much a character as a concept meant to depict a TYPE of character she'd encounter. He's a normal man who'll first lend (give) her his ear (listen to her problems) but he's only interested in sex in the end, which follows an earlier poster's observation that all the men are out to rape her.
I saw most of the characters in terms of archetypes; "The White American Family" for example.
Yes, because the forms and personalities are psychological not substantive…after all, almost 100% of the action after the severing of Concha's arms springs from the realm of Fenix's shattered mind.
share...its a metaphorical rape. She represents innocence...
Just like the scene in Holy Mountain where the old man gives the prosti-tot his eye (his soul), the man in Santa Sangre gives Alma (who is deaf) his ear. That's how I saw that scene, as a reassembling of that Holy Mountain scene. Also there is a scene In Fando y Lis with the puppeteer (played by Alejandro Jodorowsky). This seems to be a common theme in his movies. I wonder why?
sharei saw this movie once, with my girlfriend at the time, after we ate a few brownies. she barfed her guts out. i was scarred for life. one of the best movies i've ever seen. i must remember to buy it.
shareThe Scene in "The Holy Mountain" with the eye being given to the child prostitute was supposed to represent perversity. So i would imagine this scene has a similar intent. Could also have a parallel with Van Gogh cutting his ear off?
shareI suppose there's also a shade of Van Gogh symbolism in there somewhere.
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