Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, ABKCO/Anchor Bay)
A gunfighter and his young, naked son come across a massacre in the desert. They track down the bandits responsible and kill them, but not before witnessing more atrocities. The gunfighter leaves his son behind and wanders the desert with the girlfriend of one of the bandits in search of master gunfighters with which to duel. He is able to defeat them all, but only by resorting to some kind of underhanded deception. He loses his girlfriend to another woman they pick up during their travels through the desert, and they decide to kill him. He wakes up, or perhaps is reborn, as a monk in a cave full of human throwaways where a midget woman takes care of him. They leave the cave and go to a nearby town where debauchery rules. Filled with abhorrent violence, much of it involving animals, this is a pretentious philosophical mess with little in the way of coherence, much less a plot. Only the cinematography by Rafael Corkidi prevents it from being a complete failure.
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