Embrace of the Serpent (2015) Spanish
A movie that left me speechless and made me look for words to describe the kind of experience i had while watching this masterpiece. How could a simple movie doze you off so much leaving you in a deep trans state till the end of it as if you were traveling yourself inside the film with Karamakate. "Drop your things, why are you so connected to it says Karamakate" which sounded like a simple quote but a more deeper answer for secret of everyone's life. "You try to kill me because i might have tried to kill you many years back says Karamakate" and that moment i was just spellbound. I could keep on listing out many more such wonderful lines but fear i might end up talking every phrase in the movie , its as much good as it gets. This would be one of life time experience watching this for any movie freaks and a film which will instantly connect you with it making you sit tight to the seat till the end. Experience those enchanting woods, that songs of deep green forest, that beauty of Fauna 'n' flora , last but not least Karamakate who will haunt you as chullachaqui forever even if movie has ended. A film i would strongly suggest to watch and one that cannot be missed in your lifetime.
Old Karamakate: To become warriors, the cohiuanos must abandon all and go alone to the jungle, guided only by their dreams. In this journey, he has to find out, in solitude and silence, who he really is. He must become a wanderer dream. Many are lost, and some never return. But those who return they are ready to face what is to come.
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| Top: Theodor Koch-Grünberg, surrounded by Amazonia tribesmen, circa 1903. Bottom: Embrace of the Serpent character Theo (Jan Bijvoet), surrounded by Amazonia tribesmen |
Quote said by Real Theodor which perfectly describes the kind of film it would be:-
"In this moment, it is not possible for me to know, dear reader, if the infinite jungle has started on me the process that has taken many others that have ventured into these lands, to complete and irremediable insanity.If this is the case, I can only apologize and ask for your understanding, for the display I witnessed in those enchanted hours was such, that I find it impossible to describe in a language that allows others to understand its beauty and splendor; all I know is that, like all those who have shed the thick veil that blinded them, when I came back to my senses, I had become another man.” — Theodor Koch-Grünberg,1907
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| Theodor Koch-Grünberg |
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| Richard Evans Schultes |
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| Richard Evans Schultes |
https://youtu.be/V2mUapYBWy8
Amazon Explorer - Richard Evans Schultes
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. ( Credit : http://aftercredits.com/2016/02/embrace-of-the-serpent-2015/ )
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