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A toy manufacturer in this film creates dark-skinned vampire dolls and names a vomit-inducing drug Lima to condition children for the government’s upcoming war on Peru. The New York Times article “They Kill Animals And They Call It Art” criticized this non-American film for a scene in which toads costumed like conquistadors and Aztecs (15[1])are doused in blood. This film ends as a character commands the camera to (*) zoom back, revealing the crew and equipment, before declaring “Real life awaits us.” In this film, a naked man climbs a red tower to enter a semicircular room painted the colors of the rainbow, where he encounters a man dressed all in white with a distinctive large hat. For 10 points, name this surrealist film, in which a Christlike figure is led on a spiritual journey to the title location by the Alchemist, played by director Alejandro Jodorowsky. ■END■

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