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Holy Blood vs. Paint

posted 8 years ago by eeriebass
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Just watched this last night, well over the last couple nights: I had to take a break, halfway through, the film is devastatingly depressing. I will say compared to El Topo or Holy Mountain, this was a relatively straightforward narrative. Still...

I hope this goes without saying, but spoilers ahead, nothing really giving away key plot points. Why do people go on an imdb discussion board for a movie they haven't seen?

What was with the shock of a pool of blood being "just paint." That was enough for the Monsignor to condemn the place? To make the Christian comparison, the blood of Christ is "just wine." If it was an actual pool of blood, they would have got the thumbs up, carry on then?

I guess the other thing that stuck out, on the subject of Christianity: A confusing bit of symbolism, in his vision he's striking the Jesus Christ pose in a room full of chickens. Any reason there? Jodorowsky seems to like to work Christ into everything. My only speculation, he seems to envision the souls of his victims leaving their grave/body as birds. He's dealing with the internal struggle of all those he has killed/will kill? Any other theories?

[–] Campbell_for_President 7 years ago

Well the cardinal guy condemning the other church for something that pretty identical to what some christian sects do I saw a commentary on how religions are all the same and condemn all but themselves for being what they are.

[–] eeriebass 7 years ago

Great interpretation, I do believe you are right! Often times it's like we're just applying different names to the same story and these minor disagreements are apparently cause for war. Thanks for the reply.