Day 43
Film 36
Directed By: Luis Bunuel
Written By: Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
This is the first of many films that I was forced to watch in my film studies class (one of two.) It was not the kind of movie I was expecting. I do not think anyone could see it coming, no matter how strange you describe it.
I cannot say much about it because it is a surrealist film. It is just wildly strange, laughable at spots. It has no set in stone storyline. Instead it jumps from figments of stories to other figments. it is enough for us to realize a narrative, but it is so disjointed it is hard to get a good hold of it.
My mind is going crazy trying to figure out if Bunuel was actually trying to aim at something beyond the dreamlike insanity that this film portrays. He seems to be poking at the church, or God but that is drowned in unexplainable images of giraffes falling into the ocean, of cows sitting on beds like a cat or a dog, or of man punting a dog. It is just so very strange.
As a recommendation... I honestly do not know what to think. Watch this at your own digression, if you can find it. It is a good film, but it will leave your head spinning.
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