July 13, 2018
Starring: Noe Hernandez, Maria Evoli, Diego Gamaliel
Quotes: Love doesn't exist. Only demonstrations of love.
Trivia: This is the fourth film in Mexico to achieve the highest rating, which is the "D" certificate. Only this film as well as Eli Roth's Hostel (2005), Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs (2004) and Gaspar Noé's Love (2015) have gotten this certificate, which is usually given to pornographic films.
We Are the Flesh is not a horror film in the traditional sense, although there are some extremely horrific scenes. We Are the Flesh is a surrealist look at what it takes to survive in the modern world. For whatever reason, Mexico has always been the center of surrealist films. Mexico is where the two great surrealist filmmakers, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Luis Bunuel, did much of their best work. While these two directors were not Mexican, Jodorowky was Chilean and Bunuel was French, the made Mexico the capital of surrealist filmmaking. We Are the Flesh, also filmed in Mexico, built on the work of these directors especially Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. However, We Are the Flesh definitely carves out its own niche in the annals of film. The movie is but revolting and beautiful. The camera work, use of colors, and acting are as good as it gets. I am writing this discussion three days after watching the film and I have been thinking about it constantly since.
