This is the type of cinematic oddity that you don't know what to write about. You can stop talking about it rather quickly, or you can discuss the deeper meaning and various types of symbolism for hours and hours. One thing's for certain: "I Will Walk like a Crazy Horse" is one of the weirdest movies ever made, with a level of bizarre that is practically on par with Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo", Andrzej Zulawski's "Possession", David Lynch's "Eraserhead" and Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo – the Iron Man". The story is pretty much impossible to describe, let along summarize, but I'll try anyway. Aden Rey is a 30-something man, with a serious Oedipus trauma, on the run for the police. He flees into the desert where he makes an acquaintance with a lonely midget prophet named Marvel. This little guy sort of represents Jesus Christ and Mother Earth, because he can turn day into night like he's using a light switch and floats through the air on cherubic music. Aden falls in love with Marvel's purity and brings him back to civilization. Marvel is very curious to find out about our supposedly civil lifestyles, but the pollution, overpopulation, aggression, barbarity and exploitative nature of our society also makes him very miserable. They even try to make Marvel an act in a traveling circus because he's so cheerful and naive. And whilst Marvel slowly becomes "contaminated" by our cruel world, Aden gradually finds redemption. "I Will Walk like a Crazy Horse" is a mysterious and unfathomable metaphor on the deterioration of our society. The symbolism, although sometimes very far-fetched and grotesque, is brilliant and writer/director Fernando Arrabal obviously doesn't know any taboos. The imagery in his film is shocking, explicit, confronting, perverted, nauseating and cynical. There's footage of child executions, cannibalism, religious blasphemy (Jesus Christ statues coming to life etc), fascism and copious perverted sexual images (including fellatio, feces-fetish and loads of homosexual innuendo). The music is fantastic, the acting performances perplexing and the use of scenery is staggering. This film is simultaneously fascinating and hypnotizing to stare at, but you simply can't comprehend everything that you see. Probably not even after a dozen of viewings. Don't even think you've seen weird before you've seen "I Will Walk like a Crazy Horse". Personally, I thought I had seen my share of weird stuff already, but that was before I witnessed the sight of a midget sticking a flower inside a hermaphrodite's posterior and licking off the feces of the stem.
Review of I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
