Un Chien Andalou
Commentary w/ Robert Short
- 'once upon a time' - gets audience thinking about fairy tales
- prologue is apparently key
- slicing of the eye is iconic for surrealism
- woman's eyesight pulls audience in
- its all shot conventionally - like a standard film
- cutting is symbolically appropriate
- The moon is representation of the woman's virginity?
- fetishism
- deconstructs sexual fetish
- Dali's painting uses insects (like ants in hands)
- love story?
- psycho analysis
- subconscience under the conscience
- cinematic techniques used to deliberately confuse the audience
- working of the sub-conscience
- exploration of the sub-conscience
- not random apparently
- parody of traditions
- shot reverse shot
- breaking traditional hollywood continuity
- incongruity
- none of the characters have names
- two characters buried under sand - incongruity - in the spring time; meant to be happy
- froid references (psychology)
- early viewers took it seriously
- oxymoron - black humour - pain made into pleasure
- story of defeated passion
- Bunuel and Dali - "magicians of the sub conscience"
- the donkeys remind the audience of the eye slicing and then the final scene of the two characters buried in the sand with their eyes gauged out
- dead lovers in sand - shows that yet again the film is untraditional
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