The first time I watched this was on a singular blotter tab a few months ago. Right after the peak when I was sobering up. When he said "goodbye to the Holy Mountain, real life awaits us" in my substance induced head it made me relaise you can't fully live life when you are high, intoxicated. Goodbye, as real life awaits
I can't express how taken back I was the first time I saw this. I just sat and watched the credits roll by pondering so much. Really a masterpiece of cinema.
in the age of endless self-documentation and self-broadcasting, in a constructed reality that only serves the illustration of our ideal, false self, this really hits hard
It's very rare for a movie to break the fourth wall and still maintain a sense of sincerity and purity in its message. The subversion is what validates the entire journey. This is one of those movies that embraces itself completely and wholeheartedly.
I love this ending. Ultimately all religion is about accepting truth, accepting reality, and destroying lies, deceptions, and illusions. Truth is the only real "immortal" whether you believe in it or not.
@@RaptureMusicOfficial I would say that if you saw the ending first, you probably would just be confused, since you'd have no context for anything. It would be like what this one content creator did on youtube and Twitch when he showed the clip of the guy that can pass through solid matter and gave no context for it.
This time, I realized another significance of the Christ figure (thief) not being able to finish the journey with them. As a mythical image, an ideal, a figure to be used and idolized and exploited, He cannot come to reality. He truly exists in a different realm, partly in our dreams and fantasies. And if Christ were to enter our reality, that would be the end days of Armageddon.
Rev 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Rev 19:12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. Rev 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. Rev 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Rev 19:16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Rev 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; Rev 19:18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. Rev 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. Rev 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. Rev 19:21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
I interpreted the ending as us being in some kind of Truman Show. And the Pantheon Bar is symbolic for the false teachings that present themselves as opportunities to reach a deeper level of truth but they are really just distractions from the one and only true realization: Our world is a stage, we are the unsuspecting naive actors in the fake reality. We must break the veil, maya, to go back to the real dimension which isn't this TV show called life on planet earth aka open air asylum we live in right now. Indulging in little magic tricks like the man who teleported through the mountain or consuming drugs just brings us to different layers of the false reality - it would still be going by the rules / the script, instead of abandoning our roleplay completely and leaving the stage.
Watched this movie yesterday Also listened to Madvillainy for the first time like 4 o 5 days ago You commenting on this video with that profile picture is like i was destined to see your comment or something
It is the best representation of our life now and what will happen to us after death. Our illusion of life is stable and it costs everything to break it BUT after we die, we realize that everything around us is just an act and that we have to move forward. Great movie!
i don't know why people interpret this as anything other than what it is. jodorowsky literally tells you when he says "maya." the whole thing is a hindu allegory, though similar concepts can be found in all religions.
From a forth wall perspective they obtained immortality Because they made the movie and still there as long the film exists, immortals as form of art, written in culture and in our minds So, the alchemist, who is played by jodoworsky, made them immortals
@@Poirouge1 The reference to their digital immortality is in regards to the film itself, not necessarily this video. I was just trying to be helpful in case you haven’t seen a HD version
ma·ya /ˈmäˌyä,ˈmīə/ noun HINDUISM the supernatural power wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions. HINDUISM•BUDDHISM the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world.
Pretty sure this means after the school/philosophical run , avoiding temptations in completing your goals, becoming more human in the struggles, you're to apply these lessons to real life, thus by breaking all illusions in real life.
@@Oksa_L I don't even know why I put this. Was a year ago lol. I happen to think it's 1 of the best endings to a film ever made. I think my hatred towards film is mixed bag!
somebody in the comments below said during the movie they thought it was some pretentious bullshit; and then thought this ending indicates that was the point of the film. let me list the many many many things to gleam from the movie up until this scene. a religion started from a dark skinned man named Jesus. These teachings were controversial and he was killed. He preached love, equality, and spirituality on the surface and deeper things beyond that. through conquest and colonialism specifically of european decent, and Constantine, the message of this middle eastern man Jesus became a white man's excuse to enslave murder pillage and wage wars. the character who looks like Jesus in the movie is somebody who during the time of Jesus, would have taken to these teachings easily, he has the same nature. the religion of the middle eastern man to which this white man shares a nature with, persecutes him as they did Jesus, as this good natured man bounces through life trying to figure it out. he goes on a spiritual journey and learns the most ancient basic fundamental spiritual universal truths there are, that coincide with that nature that Jesus had. and it's a story of realizing that nature, and the opposite side of that nature, that the world at large runs off of, void of spirituality, overflowing with greed, dishonesty, cruelty etc. it's a journey a lot of people are familiar with, and really the movie is the antithesis of pretentious, even before this scene. now this scene, to me hit very close to home. I've had a lot of spiritual experiences, both good and bad, very real unbelievable experiences, of each extreme, if you want to say "good and evil" spiritual experiences, well sure; but it was all apart of my journey; and at the end of the journey, or the top of the holy mountain; God reveals himself as the everything, behind the seemingly "evil" experiences, and the "good" experiences; jodorowski even does a little "neener neener neener" with his hands; and it reflects a character trait of at least the exact same God I believe in, that lines up with the journey and revelations I've had myself. you see; the holy mountain and treading to the top of it wasn't just bullshit; it was necessary, look at all the people who just quit halfway up to rest in the bullshit. Ooh I'm tuff, ooh I take lsd, ooh I got money, etc. but the ones who continued to follow truth wherever it led, and correctly identified the false paths; found the real path, and then and only then will you realize truth from fiction and how interchangable those two polarities are. or sum shit
"the guy who looks like Jesus" - is the fool from the Major Arcana. He is the zero'th card - an empty vessel - the protagonist and an avatar of anyone watching the movie. Like him you have no clue what's going on and you're probably wrong - you can only learn by experience. He's created to resemble a Christ-like figure because the film is assuming that it strongly resonate more the viewer as someone you can identify with.
After hours of sitting through the entire flick, this was the revelation? The conclusion? This Jodorowsky fella was fucking with us throughout the entire shit fest. I’m extremely disappointed.
That's the point of the movie, the journey is to find yourself. Go out there and be yourself. That's the message of Jodorowsky, it can be seen in his bizzaro flicks showing his own art whom he isn't afraid to show. You should also show your own self without being afraid.
