Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Unit 4: Un Chien Andalou
When watching Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador
Dalí, people is able to perceive almost immediately the surrealism of the
movie. The way in which the scenes are shot and the concepts used to represent
the most essential and controversial themes for humans as love, sexuality, pain
and terror have a very good impact in the public. Though, the fact that
surrealism is very difficult to understand when it is expressed by someone that
is not you, makes the movie a little tedious and hard to watch at moments. The
way in which the special effects and succession of scenes is accommodated may
have had confused and altered the public, given that the movie remotes to the
1930’s when only the very “rebel” and rich people were the ones that paid to
watch this kind of films, and they were repudiated by the “normal” and “decent” people of society. People of the
21st century, now see surreal artists as Salvador Dali with admiration eyes.
Though, I have to say, Un Chien Andalou would probably be a short film not well
acclaimed because as everything that is surrealistic, people would not be able
to find easily the meaning of the work unless the work was made by them, and
people to the 21st century do not like something that is not easy to do or
understand.
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