YMMV / The Holy Mountain

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• Awesome Music: "Tarot Will Teach You/Burn Your Money." Full stop. Same goes for the tracks "Drink It" and "Bees Make Honey."
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Inverted - possibly the only straightforward moment of the film is The Alchemist speaking of assembling a team with The Thief.
• Epileptic Trees: Trying to understand the film inevitably causes this.
• Faux Symbolism: The nameless Thief has a plaster cast made of him as Jesus while passed out and wakes up in a room full of hundreds of replicas and screams at the horror of... commercialized religion?
• Harsher in Hindsight: At a business meeting, Lut proposes an apartment complex where the "rooms" are glorified coffins. This sounds a lot like Hong Kong's "shoebox housing".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: During the riot scene, one policeman pulls a live dove out of a dead protester's chest.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The track "A Walk In The Park" for being used by YourMovieSucks.org in his breakdowns of bad films.
  • "I have conquered the Holy Mountain horizontally!"
• Values Dissonance: Despite the intended message of spirituality or whatever the hell the director is saying, it cannot be argued that "No animals were harmed in the making of this film".
  • Can't speak for the toads, but the crucified carcasses in the beginning were borrowed from a local restaurant and later eaten. Harmed, yes, but not technically for the film.
  • There is a lot of nudity in the film. Of all ages.

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