![]() She tells El Topo she will not return his love unless he proves himself the best gun-fighter by defeating the desert's four great gun masters. After El Topo tears her clothes and apparently rapes her, Marah promptly becomes able to find eggs and water. When Marah tries these same techniques, she turns up nothing, seeming to lack El Topo's faith. In need of food and water, El Topo spaces Marah's feet apart and digs up eggs from the sand beneath them, then utters a prayer before shooting a rock, which then releases water. ![]() After turning bitter water sweet by stirring it with a branch, El Topo names the woman Marah. El Topo leaves his son to the monks of the settlement's mission and rides off with a woman whom the Colonel had kept as a slave. After they come across a town whose people, horses and livestock have been slaughtered, El Topo hunts down and kills the perpetrators and their leader, a fat balding Colonel. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Judeo-Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about El Topo-a violent, black-clad gunfighter played by Jodorowsky himself-and his quest for enlightenment.Įl Topo is traveling through a desert on horseback with his naked young son, Hijo. ![]() El Topo (, "The Mole") is a 1970 Mexican acid Western art film written, scored, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. ![]()
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