The Mole

The Mole
  • Release date: 15 Apr 1971
  • Release year: 1970
  • Runtime: 125 minutes
  • Country: Mexico
  • Keywords: self immolation, murder, church, suicide, real life father and son playing father and son, acid western, father son relationship, boy, desert, lion
Plot:
El Topo decides to confront warrior masters on a transformative desert journey. He begins with his six-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 gunslinger in black, riding a horse through a mystical landscape strewn with American Western 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.
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