The gunfighter El Topo ("The Mole") and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live. Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult. El Topo's son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end. Source

Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo is simply amazing. It packs so much symbolism and metaphor into one film that you simply can't cover it all in one review. It's his masterpiece and a favorite of John Lennon - that's why I've included a lot more screens that usual. You ache as the characters seek to free themselves from their internal pain. They writhe in agony and go on spiritual quests and miraculously tragic adventures. Jodorowsky put Clint Eastwood to shame (with his watered down spaghetti westerns). Find a copy or buy something from my amazon wish list and I'll send it to you.

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