An Andalus dog

[<b>Genre</b>]: Short film| fantasy

[<b>Director</b>]: Luis Buñuel

[<b>Lead actor</b>]: Simone Mareuil/Pierre Batcheff

[<b>Release time</b>]: Earlier France

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<b>Editor's note</b>: The avant-garde surreal film of 1929 is still sought after by many veteran film lovers, but it has never been thoroughly understood. The 16-minute silent film contains enough information to make people's brains heat up to smoke.

The film is a crossover collaboration between Luis Buñuel, the father of Surrealist cinema, and Salvador Dali, a painter of Surrealist. It is the manifestation of people's dreams and subconscious. The story is divided into two parts, the first opening of which shows a melancholy young man (Luis Bunuel) sitting in the moonlight, sharpening his razor, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the young girl to appear. The young man took a razor and caressed the young girl's face, cutting her eyeballs with the razor while the dark clouds crossed the moon. The second period is set 8 years later, when a young man riding a bicycle in a women's-like cloak appeared on the road, and he fainted downstairs from a woman who came downstairs to take the box in his hand, and the man never woke up. After returning to the house, the woman sat in contemplation, another man came to knock on the door, his palms were covered with ants, and while the men and women were studying ants, a woman in men's clothing downstairs was playing with a broken hand, which caused passers-by to watch. Then women's breasts, pumpkins, monks, pianos, ragged men and women appear in the picture, and symbolic dreams are displayed one by one.

The film has no plot, only a set of illogical and irrational shots, and a dissonant combination of strange and grotesque images. Some critics believe that the film's graphics are imitations of dreams and have symbolic significance. There are also film historians who oppose this simple attachment to the film, arguing that the choreographer, under the influence of surrealist painting, used the film form to pursue the absurd effect of unprovoked reasons and the fascination with poetic new figurative techniques.

However, through the frantic and irritating pictures, it is not difficult for people to feel the bitterness and depression of the era expressed in the film. Thus, the film becomes "a portrayal of a young intellectual who is blindly resisting" and "the real emotion expressed by this powerless cry of anger gives the film an atmosphere of human tragedy" (George Satur). Maybe you can guess the director's intentions, maybe you can't guess, or maybe you just think you guessed it. Let this old man from more than eighty years ago make a joke with us. In short, if you are serious with him, you will lose.

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