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The Dance of Reality

2013 · 130 min

A surreal, deeply personal fever dream that blends childhood memory with myth and political allegory, demanding but rewarding.

Overview: 'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
How it feels: Absurd, dark, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, family, trauma, power
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
family
trauma
power
memory
Places: small town
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild