Watch Movies Online: El Topo
March 9, 2010 by Mitchell Calhoun
Filed under Technology
El Topo is really a truly one of a kind western film, completely unlike anything you’ve seen before. It’s hard to know where to begin. Next time you want to watch movies online, just give El Topo a try and see what you think.
The film focuses on a gunfighter named El Topo. We open on him and his son in the desert. El Topo has the child bury a picture of his mother who was murdered, symbolically burying his own childhood and innocence and becoming a man, on this mission with his father for revenge on the people who destroyed their family. They trek across the desert in search of blood.
Upon attaining their revenge, the man and child go separate ways. The man leaves the boy in the care of a church while he leaves with his new lover. Here the movie takes a dramatic turn towards a new story development. The woman wants El Topo to kill the four fastest killers in the desert before she can love him, since she refuses to be with anyone but the strongest. They wander for ten years seeking the men out and killing them one by one.
Each of the killers is a fascinating character in their own right, such as the big burly man whose incredible strength also gives him incredible muscle control, so he has the ability to create incredibly delicate, fragile structures out of toothpicks, which Topo cannot even touch without destroying. Then there’s the old man who’s grown into a cynical nihilist after so many years of violence. He uses a butterfly net to deflect bullets, and has no other possessions in the world.
In the end, he has to come to a point of redemption. He goes into a coma and lives in a mountain for five years before waking up, shaving his beard and head, donning a robe and becoming a saint to repent for his previous, murderous lifestyle. He hopes to find forgiveness for himself, but it’s unknown whether or not he is even capable of the forgiveness he hopes to receive.
Topo eventually reunites with his adult son, and learns that putting him in the church’s hands did not, in fact, spare him a life of difficulties, and that challenges and violence will hound you no matter who you are or what your background.
The movie touches on so many pieces of symbolism from so many religions that the end result is a bizarre, sort of Andy Warhol-esque mish mash of religions that becomes its own, unique entity. Nobody but the director can pick up on every piece of symbolism in the film, so it’s best to simply enjoy it for what it is.
The movie feels incredibly eerie, it is incredibly violent, shocking, bizarre, it may offend you, but it will also enlighten you, it will elevate you and it will educate you. It is a story of hatred and of love, of revenge and of peace and forgiveness. The trailer says that it is “The single greatest experience of your life”, and while that may be a little bit hyperbolic, you’ve never seen a movie quite like this.
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