Un Chien Andalou

 Today in visual culture class, we were asked to critique themovie un chien  andalou. first off i did not for te life of me get head or tail of it….to make things worse the first scene included a woman getting her eyes sliced….i kinda would hav barfed right there if it weren’t for the presence of certain people (sigh…..). then teh movie goes on getting wierder and wierder and it made no sense…so i rely on my best buddy and first crush….”wikipedia”!!! (okie okie…my first crush was encyclopedia britannica but never mind that…) and this is what wiki had to say…

The film has no plot, in the normal sense of the word. There are two central characters, a man and a woman, who appear throughout and seem to be having a relationship crisis, but they are unnamed and the chronology of the film is disjointed: for example it jumps from “once upon a time” to “eight years later” without the events changing. It uses dream logic that can be described in terms of Freudian free association, presenting a series of tenuously related, and at times potentially offensive, scenes that attempt to shock the viewer. It also features surprising camera angles and other film tricks.

The film opens with a scene in which a woman’s eye is slit by a razor. The man with the razor is played by Buñuel himself. In subsequent scenes, a man’s hand has a hole in the palm from which ants emerge (a literalization of the French phrase “ants in the palms,” meaning that someone is “itching” to kill or is motivated by sexual desire); an androgynous blind woman pokes at a severed hand in the street with her cane before being knocked down by a car; a man fondles a woman, who resists him violently, and then he drags two grand pianos containing dead and rotting donkeys, the tablets of the Ten Commandments, and two live priests (Dalí plays one of the priests in this scene); the man’s father (played by the same actor as the man himself) arrives to punish him, but the man eventually shoots him with two pistols that appear seemingly out of nowhere (see Oedipus complex) and a woman’s armpit hair attaches itself to a man’s face.

At the end of the film, the couple seem to be reconciled, but the final shot shows two figures buried in sand and apparently dead.

After reading the sypnosis, i realzed that this is probably one of teh best shrot films ever made, because teh kind of techniques used in this movie is mind blowing considered that it was made in like the black and white era….and the surrealistic techniques used are great….anotehr thing is that if u notice the camera angles, you’ll definitely get goospepimples…. u kno wat….go watch it.. click right here….

okie i cant seem to find a link of teh complete movie..watch the clip adn if ur so interested go find it urself…!! hehe….