L'age D'or - Analysis

L'age D'or

Analysis

• "golden age"
• Same technical people who made Un Chien Andalou
• Scorpion's referred to as "agression" and "antisocial" 
• ^allegory for higher class
• "some hours later" (translation)
• Bishops on rocks - link to the hymn of men building house upon the rocks?
• men in the barn - ref to the cow on the woman's bed later on?
• Bandets!
• surrealist dialogue - echolalia - verbal hysteria
• he kicks a puppy - rude and possibly illegal!
• "imperial Rome" - jumped time periods and location
• Bishops turn into corpses's
• mayor/governor marking the event
• she's been followed by nuns after their separated from the boy in the mud
• unconscious desires
• destructive - kicking puppy, killing beetle
• "sometimes on a sunday"
• ^things being blown up
• visual gags - bread/or stone and violin scenes
• walking down the street with the men - he keeps having sexual desires about the woman
• cow on the bed - insulting high class
• he gets angry at the dogs barking at him - clearly some unresolved childhood issue
• kicks blind man over - stroppy!
• girl has bandage on her finger - bishops had that too - could be a masturbation gag, but could also be her hiding an engagement ring or wedding ring
• mocking the higher class - flies on his face (poop) maybe because he is rotting away 
• walking away from the fire as if its nothing
• little boy annoys man so he shoots him
• everyone at the party looks out the window after second gunshot
• police say his shooting was okay - seems legit
• dress falls onto the chair - its the dress she's wearing
• he slaps woman
• walks out, taking dress with him
• sitting ready for performance to start
• ^ meanwhile woman and bloke are having an orgy. As you do
• priests on a bridge?
• he keeps carrying her bridal style
• flowers on the bush behind her are white - symbol of innocence
• shoots himself in the head - body attaches itself to ceiling - trying to get to heaven?
• she starts snogging older man
• the original bloke is in her room - feathers come out of the pillow
• he throws a Bishop out the window, and a burning tree, a long piece of wood, and of course, a giraffe
• a castle appears on a cliff
• orgy time!
• jesus?
• girl tries to leave the castle, drops dead just outside the door
• jesus takes her back inside
• she screams!
• jesus comes back out
• final shot: snow on a cross.