Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou

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Although a surrealist film masterpiece, Un Chien Andalou brings us a bizarre experience. It does not tell a complete story, and one cannot even find a rational internal logic to the film. Both Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali are geniuses and madmen, and they perfectly bring two drams to the screen. There is no way to unscramble it, because it reflects the most disorderly subconscious of the human heart. They fully explore the so-called "pleasure principle" without any interpretation, but simply portray in an objective manner the most bizarre, original pursuit of pleasure without reservation. These two crazy artists use illusion to come together with the audience in a shimmer of imagined circles. First, as a surreal film, and despite the short time that it was exhibited, the impact on future generations …show more content…

Because it is not logical, there is no reason, just splicing of images depicting fantastic pieces of debris, with all sorts of subconscious states. The characters have lost their role to become a floating signifier. We see a picture, but it does not generate meaning for us, or that it does not have a fixed meaning, that is, meaning is suspended, and there is no purpose because the links between signifier and signified have been cut, such that we feel confusion when we see the image. A deepest impression is made when a tall thin man appears outside the room before the woman appeared (in this case a woman’s eyes are intact, and therefore there is no link between the disorder that was seen before), and se stares at his one hand, out of curiosity, but also looking at the past. When the man opens the palm of his hand, we see a pair of strange scenes, with a hole in the center of his palm, out of which climbs a lot of ants, making a kind of creepy

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