My favorite movie

One of my favorite films is "Santa sangre" a 1989 Mexican film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film is famous for its replete blend of magical symbology, psychoanalytic references and deep mystical tone, for which it lends itself to a serious philosophical-psychological analysis. It narrates some episodes of the adolescence and adulthood of Fénix and its relation with its mother Concha and its father Orgo, all a family dedicated to the circus spectacle. 

When he was small, Phoenix lived in a circus of which his father was the owner (besides the thrower of knives). Concha was the priestess of a church that worshiped as a saint a girl whose arms were ripped from her while they raped her. 

The arrival of a tattooed woman at the circus (along with her protégé, the deaf-muffled balancing actress Alma) and the infidelities that the father of Phoenix plays in his company, combined with the demolition of Concha's church, end up with the patience of the woman, who Attacks her husband and is mutilated by him, who commits suicide before the Phoenix soon after. 

Now, Phoenix is ​​a young man in a psychiatric ward. They show how having a problematic family can completely damage the psyche of the subject, in this case the son of two sick parents, corrupted by their ideals, the mother crazy for a religion she invented herself, and the father blinded by his carnal desire And lust. In my opinion is a very interesting and versatile film to see with time, I liked the cinema of this Chilean artist, recognized by the whole world thanks to his management and intellect, is a great Alejandro Jodorowsky.