IO9 Review Santa Sangre
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The pachyderm's casket is paraded through the town and dumped into a ravine where it is set upon by the poor starving humans who have also been similarly cast away. | The pachyderm's casket is paraded through the town and dumped into a ravine where it is set upon by the poor starving humans who have also been similarly cast away. | ||
− | Or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= | + | Or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs1eZf-FTTU this] scene where Fenix and a group of hospital residents with Down Syndrome take a field trip to see a film about Robinson Crusoe and end up snorting coke and visiting an obese prostitute instead (warning: not kidding.) |
The choice of Robinson Crusoe is of course no accident. The world of ''Santa Sangre'' is populated by castaways, the wretched refuse, the misfits of society, the unworthy in the sight of God, the forgotten, the depraved, the abandoned and the unloved. It is Hell, old school traditional non-Sartre Hell, on Earth. Every corner of ''Santa Sangre'' seems to be populated by something that pokes us in the uncomfortable corners of the collective unconscious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lovrNoxwY Fenix and Concha's morning ritual] alone is enough to undo twenty years worth of Freudian psychotherapy. | The choice of Robinson Crusoe is of course no accident. The world of ''Santa Sangre'' is populated by castaways, the wretched refuse, the misfits of society, the unworthy in the sight of God, the forgotten, the depraved, the abandoned and the unloved. It is Hell, old school traditional non-Sartre Hell, on Earth. Every corner of ''Santa Sangre'' seems to be populated by something that pokes us in the uncomfortable corners of the collective unconscious. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lovrNoxwY Fenix and Concha's morning ritual] alone is enough to undo twenty years worth of Freudian psychotherapy. |