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- A.k.a.
- The Milky Way
- Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 102 min.
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.7
- Votes *
- 5,370
- Checks
- 1,264
- Favs
- 99
- Dislikes
- 13
- Favs/checks
- 7.8% (1:13)
- Favs/dislikes
- 8:1
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Siskoid
The Father of Surrealist Cinema, Luis Buñuel, sends us down the merry road of Christianity take-downs in The Milky Way (which is sometimes called the Path of St-James, a pilgrimage two tramps are more or less making in the film). Though largely just thematically-linked vignettes criss-crossing the "path", often seeming like parables, their dialog taken directly from Scripture and theology texts, it's a delight in the way it mixes religious iconography, various historical time frames, surrealism (I love the bit where one character hears another's imagination), and sarcastic exploration of Christianity's hypocrisies. If there's a big take-away, it's that Christianity isn't, nor has never been monolithic, and Catholicism especially (which Latin Europe and its colonies is still saddled with) takes as given things that are not in the Bible whatsoever, and that even biblical literalists ignore half of everything and misinterpret the other half. By juxtaposing different points in religious history, Buñuel highlights the kind of Frankenstein's Monster organized religion really is, a mess of contradictions, strange add-ons, and dated dogma. May anathema be upon me, but I thought it was a lot of fun. 1 year 5 months ago
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This movie ranks #444 in The Criterion Collection
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