Santa Sangre (1989)

Axel Jodorowsky: Fenix

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Quotes 

• Fenix : [Concha begins to control his hands]  Watch out, Saint! For now you have to fight me off.

  The Saint : What's happening to you? Are you going crazy?

  Concha : Kill her! Kill her!

  Fenix : Did you hear her? She wants me to kill you with my hands.

• [last lines] 

  Police : [on megaphone]  Put your hands up!

  Fenix : [begins to raise hands]  My hands... My hands! My hands.

  [laughs] 

• [first lines] 

  [Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room] 

  Doctor : [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart]  Fenix. Please...

  [offers him a normal meal] 

  Doctor : Eat like a human being.

  [pause] 

  Doctor : [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish] 

  Fenix : [howls] 

  [jumps down and grabs the fish] 

  Fenix : Grr!

  [sits and begins eating it] 

  Doctor : You can't just stay here all the time, not seeing anyone.

  [pause] 

  Doctor : Now come on, stand up.

• Concha : You know what you have to do.

  Fenix : No, I don't want to!

  Concha : This girl has defiled you with her lust.

  Fenix : No, mum, it's not true! It's only a game!

  [begins to lose control of his hands] 

  Fenix : No! I can't! Don't ask me to!

  Concha : I'm not asking you, I'm ordering... my hands... and my arms... to kill her. Kill her!

• Fenix : I'm sorry... I was having an hallucination...