Antonio barrera matador death

Antonio Barrera is not a great bullfighter. As the Spanish bullfighting critic J.A. del Moral puts it in Ido Mizrahy&#;s documentary Gored, he has no &#;aesthetic grace.&#; In other words, he isn&#;t one of the &#;artist&#; matadors with an &#;aesthetic purity&#;from another galaxy.&#; Barrera never reaches the point where the spectacle stops being &#;a mere fight&#; and becomes &#;a tragic ballet of extraordinary beauty.&#;

But he makes up for these failings with unflinching bravery.

Barrera is proud to &#;offer his life percent&#; every time he enters a bull ring; and, with 23 cornadas, he is the most gored bullfighter in modern history. Gored gives us glimpses of his near-death experiences: On his knees in front of a thousand-pound bull in the pouring rain; hopping around the ring with a makeshift tourniquet around his bloody upper thigh; staggering, bare-chested, bare-buttocked, bleeding from various wounds, his &#;suit of lights&#; split open at the seams by the bull&#