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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