embrace of the serpent - anyone see this?
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Been curious about this one. It looks like it could be amazing or completely terrible.
i really liked it, saw it last night. it's at the living room for a few more days.
Schultes would be enraged! A fictional plant! Seriously! he spent his life trying to eradicate exactly this species of hogwash pseudoscience: Harry Potter skullfucking The Noble Savage. Drink the goddamn Koolaid you balmy bastards: God is real.
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embrace of the serpent - anyone see this?
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
- linda 3-11-2016 2:36 pm
Been curious about this one. It looks like it could be amazing or completely terrible.
- steve 3-13-2016 9:25 am [add a comment]
i really liked it, saw it last night. it's at the living room for a few more days.
- linda 3-13-2016 11:00 pm [add a comment]
Schultes would be enraged! A fictional plant! Seriously! he spent his life trying to eradicate exactly this species of hogwash pseudoscience: Harry Potter skullfucking The Noble Savage. Drink the goddamn Koolaid you balmy bastards: God is real.
- Frank (guest) 3-26-2016 10:10 pm [add a comment]