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''La venida del Rey Olmos (The Coming of King Elms)'' is a 1975 bizarre Mexican film based on a script written by Eduardo Luján, and adapted by also director Julián Pastor and Luján himself. After returning from a small town called Dublán, in the Mexican State of Chihuahua, a strange 20th-century Son of the Father creates a new Church in the outskirts of Mexico City. At the end, he is shot to death by one of his most loving and loved female disciples.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOddID1GBM〕 ==Synopsis== The settings are a fictitious Northern Mexico town, Dublán, State of Chihuahua —1,148 miles (1,848 kilometers) North from Mexico City and 132 miles (213 kilometers) South from El Paso, Texas—, where Reynaldo Olmos has travelled to start a new Christian life, after leaving behind in Mexico City his wife Chabela and their son who died shortly after because of a dysenterya, and a very poor district, San Cayetano, located in the outskirts of Mexico City, where the streets are unpaved, and the main economic activity is the making of bricks in some rudimentary brickworks ("ladrilleras"). The times are those of the sexennium of the Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 1952-1958, as at 34:01 a personage named Venustiano Negrón is shown reading a newspaper called El Nacional, and the eight-column title makes a mention of Ruiz Cortines. At 2:50 a black man says: "Because I am a black, I may not be baptized or take the communion, I must await the Millennium, the Third Age, it will be when Our Lord return to Earth, to lift the curse of our color." At 57:29, it can be read a sign inside the temple located in the "Colonia San Cayetano", in the outskirts of Mexico City: "Todos somos iguales, hasta los negros", id est, We all are equal, even the blacks. Reynaldo Olmos goes to dwell to Dublán, pursuing his search of a new kind of life, where he happens to belong to a Christian sect, seemingly a mixture of Evangelical ones, Mennonites, and Mormons (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Irresponsibly, he has left behind him his wife Chabela and their son in Mexico City. The child dies because of a dysenterya, and Chabela goes to work as a prostitute in a brothel called La Sirena. Meanwhile, Reynaldo is baptized in a Chihuahua river by Brother Donald. Shortly after, he boards a train toward Mexico City, where he will start a new congregation of that Church, authorized and encouraged by Brother Donald, who affectionately and paternally says goodbye to him at the railroad station. When he arrives to Mexico City, believes he has divine powers, seeks and finds his godfather and friend, who resigned his job at a factory and has opened a small barber shop. Reynaldo asks him about his wife Chabela, and the hairdresser tells him Chabela has become a prostitute, and takes Reynaldo Olmos to La Sirena, a brothel. Rey drinks along with his friend and Chabela, and takes them out of La Sirena, in the unpaved street, he undresses his "impure ex-wife" and anoints her with water, in order to heal her, while some dogs bark in the distance. He takes over partially the barber shop of his friend and establishes a "spiritual doctor's office". At 23:47, his friend sticks a notice on the front of the humble barber shop, which reads: "Doctor Reynaldo Olmos, graduado en Estados Unidos y en el E. Santo. "Por la Gracia Suprema de los Tres. R.O. * 666-2." "Doctor Reynaldo Olmos, a graduate from the United States and the Holy G. "By the Supreme Grace of the Three. R.O. * 666-2." * Initials which stand for "Reynaldo Olmos". Venustiano Negrón, a rich man, who says he is the owner of the brickworks, tries to seduce his sister-in-law Martina, a pretty and young woman. But who seduces her is the leader of the new sect, Rey Olmos (King Elms), who does not follow anymore the steps of his older brethren and teachers in the church of Northern Mexico (Chihuahua), but instead proclaims himself as the Son of the Father. Reynaldo has shortened his name to Rey (King), and has started wearing a purple chasuble similar to the ones worn by Catholic priests. Also his ex-wife has sewn a square piece of white cloth on the chest of his chasuble, which shows a Dove, and reads, "Yo Rey Olmos, Soy E. Santo" (I, King Elms, I Am Holy G. *) *Ghost At 28:30 Rey admonishes: "Tell your boss that whoever denies me before men, I also will deny him/her before my Holy Father, who is in heaven." At 29:21, Rey tells her future lover Martina: "You will be anointed with the sacred oil that has been blessed by the Holy Ghost." At 33:02, this kind of Mexican Christ, after having made love with Martina, tells her, "My daughter, your faith has healed you, 'Talitha Kumi', * which is the same as 'get up, girl', it is my will and my command." *Mark 5, 41. Martina becomes a lover for Rey Olmos. There are money and power struggles between religious leader Rey Olmos and Venustiano Negrón ("Don Venus"). At 47:17, nude scenes with prostitutes start at a steam bath house/brothel. Rey has been invited by Venustiano Negrón, some friends of this one take part in the party too. Don Venus asks a bottle of Batey Rum, one of the finest Mexican rums (from a distillery in Córdoba, State of Veracruz, which no longer operates). Rey organizes a strike against Venustiano Negrón, with the help of this one's brick makers. The religious leader accepts five thousand pesos as a bribe in order to not starting the strike, but then he says that money will be invested in the building of a new temple. At 53:23, Rey Olmos says he is immortal: "One moment, one moment, my children, let him do. You can kill me; yet I tell you that I am immortal, I do not mind dying, and that this man makes a martyr out of me." Near the end of the film, his most loving and loved female disciple, Martina, a kind of modern Mary Magdalene, as she firmly believes he is immortal, shoots him to death at the door of the church, expecting he will go to the heavens with his Father, and then he will return to this unclean Earth. At 1:21:02 Martina says: "You, who can do everything, do something so that the spikes bloom again. You have to perform a miracle, Rey, you have to die and be resurrected. Rise to the heavens with your Father, and then come down to this unclean Earth. Only then, they will believe in you again." () Chabela, id est, the ex-wife of Rey, his best friend the hairdresser, and Juan, a Martina's ex-boyfriend, agree on that the last two ought to throw the cadaver of the prophet to the waters of a nearby channel. The next day, Chabela opens the coffin, and miraculously, Rey has risen from the dead, so his corpse is not inside the coffin: has ascended into heaven ("as his brother in the Second Age, Jesus Christ, has done as well"), but Rey Olmos has left a sign: a guitar for the Third Millennium and his followers. She delivers the guitar to the one-eyed guitarist, who becomes the new supreme leader of the sect. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La venida del Rey Olmos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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