Response to "Gabbeh"

The color in "Gabbeh" was amazing. The colors were saturated and bright. Color was also used in the narrative: yellow and red were the sun, green the plants, and blue the sky and water. These colors and elements combined all equal life. The story was about life, marriage, and birth.

I also enjoyed the surrealist elements in the narrative. How people would fade in and out of the picture. How the uncle teaching the children of color pointed at a color and then took the color in his hands. And how the old woman spoke and touched Gabbeh in one shot, then in a subsequent shot the woman still spoke but was speaking to no one.

On a side note: parts of the film reminded me of films by Alejandro Jodorowsky like wandering through the desert and the goat giving birth; the strange, bizarre, and gross elements, mixed with the surrealist narrative of "Gabbeh" reminded me of "El Topo".