October 26, 2023
Today, I dove into that abyss to find the 2015 religious fever dream: ( The Bastard Son of God ). The Hunt First, a little context. I stumbled upon a Reddit thread from three years ago asking, "Has anyone actually seen El hijo bastardo de Dios ?" The poster described it as a "Mexican anti-gospel passion play shot on a Canon Rebel." I was hooked. el hijo bastardo de dios -2015- ok.ru
The director, whose name I won't butcher here, clearly had a vision. It is part Luis Buñuel surrealism, part gas station security footage. There is a twenty-minute sequence where the protagonist argues with a donkey. The donkey does not react. The subtitles are auto-generated from Spanish to Russian, then back to English. They read things like: "The sky egg is crying for your sins." Is El hijo bastardo de Dios a good movie? Absolutely not. The audio is terrible. The acting ranges from "community theater Hamlet" to "man reading a grocery list for the first time." October 26, 2023 Today, I dove into that
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But is it interesting ? Yes.