El Topo, by Alexandro Jodorowsky, is perhaps one of the strangest, most beautiful, and most bizarre western films ever made, if not the most bizarre film ever created period. The next time you’re in the mood to watch movies online, if you want something a little different (well, actually, quite a bit different) from the norm, give El Topo a try.

The movie follows a black clad gunfighter named El Topo, beginning with him and his son on a quest for revenge. The mother has been killed, and the father has the son bury a photograph of the mother as a symbolic end to his childhood, and a beginning to his adulthood. The two then trek through the desert to find the man responsible for her death.

After attaining revenge, the two go their separate ways. El Topo leaves the boy in the hands of the church while leaving with his new lover. His girlfriend insists that he trek through the desert and kill the top four killers, and only then will she be able to love him, as she can only love the strongest men. The two wander the desert for several years, taking out the killers 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 film touches on symbolism from just about every major religion in the history of mankind, from Buddhism to Catholicism to Hinduism. The end result is a film where the symbolism is really an all new beast, in a sense. Because the symbolism draws from so many sources, it’s impossible for anybody but the film’s director to understand them completely, so it really winds up feeling like a whole new religious background invented from the ground up.

El Topo carries an incredibly surreal, eerie feeling. It will shock you, enlighten you, entertain you, educate you and repulse you. It’s a story about love and hate, revenge and redemption, and while the trailer may have been taking it a bit far when it declared that the movie will be the single greatest experience you ever have in your life, the fact remains that it’s a darn great film.

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