The film we watched last August 28, 2013 is an example of a surrealist film. The movie has only instrumental or background music, the characters does not speak but the viewer must be the one to determine what they do, what they wanted to portray and merely understand what they wanted to tell to the viewers. It is a combination of logic and analysis, deep comprehension but according to our professor, the meaning of the film is left upon the viewer.
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) is a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí.
The first scene I remember was held at the room with a girl and boy. The girl tries to prepare things for the nun on the bed and then they both stand by the window and saw an investigator and group of people covering the detached and wounded hand. Crazy because unlike usual people, they don’t get scared nor terrified seeinga a detached hand along the highway. The two kept on watching until the crime scene cleaned and the hand was placed on a box. The woman investigator stood on the highway with cars pass by until she was hit by one and the two people standing by the window got shocked and like forgotten what happened. They created their own scenario inside the room after the incident. The boy tried to molest the girl. They run through the room, the boy chases the girl and molested her. He touched the girl’s breast and imagining she is naked, so is her butt. But the girl once again refused and ran.
Then another weird thing happen, the boy tried to trap the girl, he is pulling the piano with dead camels and co-workers but lying on the floor. I think what it wants to imply is that when it comes to love or winning a woman’s heart, you really have to work hard, even to the point of death just as the camels portrayed and always be humble doing your very best and that’s how you can’t trap the woman in your heart.
But the boy did not prevailed. The woman escaped and closed the door but on the other room, the man with the same face appeared. This only shows that even though we experience suffering or heart break, we still allow others to captivate our heart. Knowing that it could be of the same person or attitude you’ve loved before.
Then another crazy scenario came, according to our professor, it is a flashback and a re-enactment of the man’s experience with his father. With how he was maltreated and disgraced. And then, I do not know if the girl decided to be with another guy or is the man’s father she chose to be with. Because of the unidentified flow of the story. The box is always on the scene which I tjink symbolizes love. That no matter how we flee from it, no one can escape from what it brings. With the way it does not choose what place it will appear, so is love, it does not choose the person to be attacked. The couple run dry and stayed by the beach frozen. Depicting that as years pass by, relationship may grow cold and run dry.
NASAH. 