By Jason Horsley
Movie blurs the road among fantasy and truth larger than the other creative medium, you can actually argue. utilizing videos to discover the subconscious nation-states of society to be able to achieve a greater figuring out of what drives it, this booklet examines filmmakers and flicks that heart on schizophrenic topics of alienation, paranoia, breakdown, myth, desires, dementia and violence, and that address--as entertainment--the schizophrenic event. The lack of person id as mirrored within the movies is investigated, in addition to the shamanic power inherent within the broader subject.
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The trip to the abyss has not been a total loss. Tuco — now Blondy’s best friend — takes him to a nearby monastery to recuperate, and there confronts his own brother. This is the emotional centerpiece of the film, and the funniest and most touching scenes are here. ”), uses all his wiles — and his considerable acting ability — to try and trick the name out of Blondy (he tells him he is dying, so he may as well unburden himself ); but even delirious, Blondy is too shrewd to fall for Tuco’s tricks.
It’s also a rousing, stylized, free-form epic Western with all the necessary ingredients of first-class “mindless” (visceral, blissful) entertainment, and it’s this very dual nature that makes it a work of art. How many people who see the movie will receive even the faintest whiff of such an “occult text”? One in a thousand, at best; it took me twenty years and countless viewings before I did. But once you spot it, it changes everything, and that’s the beauty of it. That’s what makes the text “occult,” after all, and that’s why the treasure is buried: so only those with sufficient ingenuity and determination will ever get to ride off with the gold.
Significantly, the only time we see Blondy as part of the group is when he is holding the kitten, thus demonstrating (to us, though not to Angel Eyes) just how unlike the other men he is. Blondy hears a gunshot and recognizes it at once as Tuco’s. (Actually this is impossible, since Tuco is an escaped prisoner and must just as surely have been separated from his guns while in the POW camp. ) “Perfect timing,” Blondy says, speaking to the kitten (to which he has even given a name). Tuco is taking a bath on the other side of town and is ambushed by an old enemy he mistakenly left alive; Tuco — rather improbably — shoots the man with a gun submerged in bath water, concealed by the bubbles.