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Embrace Of The Serpent
Ciro Guerra: In Amazonian mythology, extraterrestrial beings descended from the Milky Way, journeying to the earth on a gigantic anaconda snake. They landed in the ocean and traveled into the Amazon, stopping at communities where people existed, leaving these pilots behind who would explain to each community the rules of how to live on earth: how to harvest, fish, and hunt. Then they regrouped and went back to the Milky Way, leaving behind the anaconda, which became the river. The wrinkled skin of the serpent became the waterfalls.
Embrace of the Serpent
Indeed, the place itself is transformative. To embrace the serpent may be to digest strange dreams, but an overhead shot of the terrain ultimately suggests another meaning. From above, it's clear that the river coils through the forest like an endless snake.
"I want to make films without cynicism. To me, cynicism is a disease in society, and that's why I embrace cinema's ability to let us see the world as if for the first time. I am still amazed by the beauty of every day, and find myself privileged to not have been subjugated by cynicism."
Embrace Of The Serpent points at the need to soul search our own selves as human beings because as a species we have, at some stage in history, devolved into manifesting a very disturbing behaviour, culture and mindset, where we embrace the destruction of the natural world through pollution, unsustainable development and capitalism, and driving the remaining forests into extinction. 041b061a72