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blumdeluxe "Un chien andalou" is one of the early movies, that is hard to grasp since it serves more as an expression of art than it really tells an organized story. Some of the reviewers here praise it especially for breaking social boundaries and taboos and indeed I guess that a lot of its value, apart from the prominent producers, originates from this fact.In a time when social boundaries were still a lot tighter than they are today it takes some bravery to release a movie like this one. Unfortunately, going beyond taboos doesn't guarantee an excellent movie though. I guess like with most art, the reception of this movie, apart from its historical value, is highly personal and depends largely on your taste. Personally, I liked some of the elements and depictions, but I find it rather difficult when a film provides so little structured plot.All in all you have to give the producers some credit for fighting for a more liberal art that isn't bound by social pressure. But that doesn't mean you have to blindly celebrate this movie. Not everyone that doesn't break out into celebration after watching it wants to be hip, some just simply didn't like it that much. That's art.

BA_Harrison Un Chien Andalou is 16 minutes of surreal silent film that makes less sense than painting my knackers green and setting them on fire while singing the national anthem. Director Louis Buñuel, collaborating with artist Salvador Dalí, delivers a series of perplexing images, some of which are extremely disturbing (the slicing of a woman's eye with a straight razor), some of which are daring (the fondling of a naked pair of breasts and a bare ass), and many of which are downright bizarre (a man pulling two pianos weighed down by dead donkeys and a pair of priests!?!).Other memorable imagery includes ants crawling out of a hole in the palm of a man's hand, an androgynous woman poking a severed hand with a stick, and a guy losing his mouth only to have it replaced by the pubic hair from a lady's armpit. Almost impossible to rate since I had no idea what any of it meant, hence my non-committal score of 5/10.

framptonhollis In the late 1920's, surrealists Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel collaborated on this fabulously bizarre short film.Following what barely represents a narrative, "Un chien anadolou" feels like a dream or, rather, a nightmare, for it manages to be quite terrifying in places. It's definitely daring for its day , featuring memorably horrifying images such as ants crawling from a man's hand, two dead donkeys lying on two moving pianos, and, what is perhaps the most well known of all, the infamous eye splitting sequence. This was certainly some pretty racy stuff back in its day, and today that eyeball splitting still manages to disturb and make most people cringe and wonder how they managed to get that shot.The editing is very well done, and the whole film manages to be very artistic. As I said, it is like some sort of filmed nightmare, comparable to "Eraserhead", in which nothing really makes sense most of the time and each shot gets more and more strange and unsettling. There's also a lot of really interesting special effects and camera tricks used throughout the film, making it a visual masterpiece for the time.I, personally, am not really pretentious and into all sorts of modern art that is really just dumb but tries to come across as genius because reason. Trust me, I'm not the type of guy that stares at a painting that's just a single color yellow and tries to interpret the meaning because it's "really deep and against the system, man!", but surrealism is a form of art that I can really get into. A lot of the time, surrealism doesn't need to make sense, it just is, and that's the beauty of it. It's all really weird and out there, just like this film."Un chien andalou" isn't logical or jam packed with meaning, it just simply is, and what it is is great.

meclote Analyzing the film we realized that the sexual identity and gender marks are very much exposed. Interpreting this gender messages through the film may have a lot of subjectives opinions since this is a surrealist movie. However one way to understand this film can be related with the growing process of the human being itself.Humans are constantly in an internal search for who they really are, specially when it comes to find their own gender identity. This movie is a reflection of that internal process in which we try to always fulfill the gender stereotypes society has forced on us.At the beginning of the movie a man that is looking at the moon and a cloud passing through it , cuts the eye of a woman. The moon a usual female symbol can be related with the eye of the woman and its circular shape , while the phallic shape of the cloud can be related to the razor and its elongated and masculine characteristic. On this scene the cutting of the eye may represent the sexual penetration. Although some interpretations stated that the prologue of the film it is not related with the plot itself, for me the prologue is in fact an anticipation of what the film will be all about. The female and male symbols start to appear and its showing us already this bi dimension we live in.In one of the first scenes we see a cyclist man dress in a very feminine way wearing frills and with a box on his hands. His androgynous aspect show us his sexual immaturity. This part can be interpreted as our teenage years in which the gender identity it is not completely defined, we are still deciphering who we are.Latter the same man is in a room with a girl. He is now wearing menswear and a very symbolic masculine element a "tie". At this point in the film the two very contrasting elements the frills and the tie defining by the society as feminine and masculine are very much exposed to show us the man's ambiguous sexual inclination.Another gender mark is reflected on the movie when a woman that its on the street is wearing men clothing looking very androgynous. The girl on the street may represent the female alter ego of the man. She plays with a mutilated "right" hand. The right side its known as been the masculine side of our bodies. This part can be interpreted as a castration or fear of loosing the masculinity. Once she is killed , his masculinity seems to be reinforced and we know that because of his desire for the opposite sex (the girl).Finally his sexual repression its been released by touching the woman's breast. For me this part can be interpreted as the first erotic experience humans have in which all our sexual desires are released even just with something as simple as a touch. But the man suddenly among his gender confusion imagine a butt were the breast are, a very ambiguous symbol, since it could be either for man or woman (homosexual inclination). The woman who its been showed constantly during the movie as a defined female reject's him.In the next scene the woman and the man start a fight, he pulls a string with certain elements like religious books, two priest, and a piano. This represents the causes of his sexual frustration such as the cultural,religious and social norms that all humans should follow to be part of the society.Latter we can see the man again wearing the female clothing but another man also appears, who seems to be the his twin but in a very masculine version (Tie symbol, again). This new man punishes him and throws away all the man's female clothing. According to my own thoughts this man may also represent his male alter ego , that at the end is also killed.After that the interpretation I can get is that the man now is completely lost he has rejected both his female alter ego (homosexual inclination) and also his male alter ego (heterosexual inclination). Falling to defined his gender identity , the woman leaves him.Of course everyone has their own interpretation about the film. What do you think?