To the Serpent...
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El abrazo de la serpiente is a internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. It was shot in black-and-white.
The film was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes , and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures. The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in and American named Evan in , to look for the rare yakruna , a fictional sacred plant. Karamakate prolongs his life, blasting white powder called "the sun's semen" possibly a hallucinogenic made from virola [7] up his nose, but is reluctant to become involved with a westerner and refuses his money.
Theo is searching for yakruna as the only cure for his disease and the three set off in the canoe to search for it. Evan says he is hoping to complete Theo's quest and Karamakate does assist, again reluctantly, saying his knowledge is spent. Evan has a book of Theo's final trek, which his aide sent back to Europe, as he did not survive the jungle.
The book includes an image of Karamakate, which he refers to as his chullachaqui , a native term for hollow spirit. Karamakate agrees to help him only when Evan describes himself as someone who has devoted himself to plants, although Evan's real purpose is actually to secure disease-free rubber trees , since the United States's supplies of rubber from South East Asia had dwindled due to the Japanese wartime advance.
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Both expeditions feature a Spanish Catholic Mission by the side of an Amazon tributary, run in by a sadistic, lone Spanish priest who beats orphan boys for any "pagan" behaviour, and in by a delusional Brazilian figure who believes he is the Messiah.
He only trusts the visitors when he believes they are the Biblical Magi , but Karamakate wins his respect when he heals his wife. By now the children of have grown into disturbed and violent acolytes. In , we are left with Theo, sick and having fled the Mission, arriving at a frontier post just about to be invaded by Colombian soldiers during the Amazon rubber boom , where the sacred yakruna is being abused by drunken men, and cultivated, against local traditions. Karamakate is furious and destroys it. In , Karamakate does show Evan the origin of the plant in striking denuded dome shaped mountains Cerros de Mavecure , allegedly the home of yakruna.
He reveals one yakruna flower that is on the last plant — he has destroyed all the others — and prepares it for Evan. The preparation being hallucinogenic, aids Evan in undergoing a superconscious experience. While most of the film is in black-and-white, a part of this experience is shown in colour to signify its intensity.
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The film ends with a transformed Evan remaining enamoured by a group of butterflies. The soundtrack album of the movie was released by Plaza Major Company on 22 January and contains 9 songs composed by Nascuy Linares. The film has received universal acclaim from critics. The site's critical consensus reads, "As rich visually as it is thematically, Embrace of the Serpent offers a feast of the senses for film fans seeking a dose of bracing originality".
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Indiewire ' s Jessica Kiang awarded the film an A rating, calling it "a soulful, strange and stunning discovery". She also described the character of Karamakate as "an immaculate portrait of the unfathomable loneliness and crushing survivor's guilt that comes with being the last of one's kind". He also praised the black-and-white cinematography and the sound design which he said "makes the jungle truly come alive".
About the parallel narrative he wrote it "delivers a fairly comprehensive critique of the destruction of indigenous cultures at the hands of white invaders".