Word: maras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil with efficiency and cold skill. It has imposed strict censorship on the press and the arts and has imprisoned and tortured priests and Catholic lay workers who have been organizing among the poor. With the notable exception of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Archbishop Helder Pessoa Cámara of Recife and Olinda,* opponents of the regime have been cowed or brutalized into silence. The generals have relentlessly tracked down leftists. In late 1969 they killed Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella, the one man who had the personal magnetism to lead an underground movement. According to apologists for the junta, torture...
...Reces, a Mara Brothers fiasco, Orson Wells 4, 7:30, 11:15. With Night at the Opera...
...second part of the film begins as the rider abandons his son for the woman, who demands, as a condition of her love, that he show himself to be the greatest man by killing the Four Great Masters of the Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish...
When the last Master shoots himself, Jodorowsky freaks out, and runs around pulling at his hair and yelling at God for having forsaken him. Meanwhile, Mara has taken up with a stereotypical lesbian, who dresses in black, wears black mascara and a black Sassoon haircut. The lesbian shoots him six times, but he keeps walking, arms outstretched and with stigmata bleeding at the hands and feet, until Mara shoots him and he crumbles to the ground and is hauled away by a group of dwarfs and cripples...
...Leone. In trying to outdo his forebears with greater bloodshed, deformity and perversion, he fails to realize anything more subtle, anything transcending what he shocks you with. El Topo is intensity for the sake of intensity. Jodorowsky's attempts at anything but horror are sad failures: a scene of Mara discovering the world outside of her monastic confinement looks like a bad Tampax...