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One film a large number of folks have struggled for years to "get" (perhaps from the wishes of the makers) is Un Chien Andalou, the 1929 collaboration between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The two notorious surrealists apparently couldn't are already happier their work confounded numerous viewers with the time of the company's release, also it continues to complete so today. According to Buñuel himself, "NOTHING, in the film, SYMBOLIZES ANYTHING"; if one breaks this sentence down: "NOTHING... SYMBOLIZES ANYTHING," the reality with the film is revealed: the images, which consciously represent NOTHING coherent or rational, can SYMBOLIZE ANYTHING to your individual viewer.<br />
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Therefore, the following is one viewer's interpretation, supplemented through the ideas of an few others, in an try to discover a logical narrative thread inside a film whose stated purpose is to own none. It is mandatory the reader begin to see the film at least a couple of times for him or herself before continuing; this really is a smaller amount a review in the film than a careful analysis of every image contained therein.<br />
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The film's structure, even from the very opening title, is misleading and disorientating. Un Chien Andalou, which literally translates as An Andalusian Dog, takes place in Paris and contains no dog, nor even mentions one away from title. This title and the opening scene quickly shatter any expectations the audience might have.<br />
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Upon repeat viewings, one begins to find out that entire film represents a goal in the mind of a real-life, modern-day Oedipus, as embodied through the film's protagonist (Pierre Batcheff). After the inter-title: "Once upon a time," we visit a man, played by Buñuel, whetting his straight-razor. This man could be the protagonist's father. What follows is one with the most horrifying images in cinematic history. Since the protagonist's father holds the razor up for the eye in the protagonist's mother (Simonne Mareuil), he looks towards the moon to view a thin cloud slicing across its surface. Just as the audience is seemingly spared the gruesomeness from the actual event from this visual metaphor, the razor slices the eye (actually a donkey's) in close-up, spilling its jelly-like contents. This symbolizes the father's extraction from your mother with the truth about she and her son, which we view because the film progresses.<br />
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The following inter-title, "Eight years later," shows the out-of-control nature of energy from the protagonist's dream. We are brought to him as an overgrown child inside a man's body, riding his bicycle down the trail which has a striped box tied around his neck. The film slowly dissolves from your shot with the city streets for the protagonist riding and back again; this indicates a lapse in time, showing that they has traveled an extended way, but additionally includes a wonderfully disorienting effect. Time and space are not to become trusted in a dream.<br />
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When the protagonist falls off his bike, dropping his striped box, the innocence of his childhood is symbolically lost. His mother runs to his aid and brings him upstairs, where she lays the contents in the box: his childhood school clothes. She sits considering them, symbolically reminiscing about her son as an innocent child. Her reverie is destroyed when she sees her son in the corner, staring at his hand; a close-up reveals ants crawling out from the palm. A common visual metaphor in Dali's paintings, this signifies she has caught her son masturbating; the shock for my child face upon seeing the ants echoes his shame on the discovery.<br />
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The mother's armpit, as seen by the protagonist, can be a metaphor for her pubis. The protagonist develops a sexual fixation on this; the subsequent dissolve to a sea urchin foreshadows the film's ending, which happens on a beach: the overriding emotion of the ending is really a tragic a sense loss. By dissolving from your sexual image to at the very least one that evokes this, the film shows the protagonist's underlying fear of sex, a topic that's very prevalent inside life and work of both Dali and Buñuel<br />
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The hand lying in the street represents the protagonist's hand, the way to obtain his masturbatory shame, which therefore is often a representation of his burgeoning sexuality; he or she is excited when it is explored by another, the androgynous person who pokes the hand having a stick. The androgyny of the character may be the first hint we have seen in the protagonist's possible latent bisexuality. When the gendarme gives he the hand, inside the same striped box seen earlier within the film, it signifies the protagonist's acceptance on this person like a lover and friend; he or she is giving both his innocence and his new-found sexuality to her/him. When the androgynous person is struck and killed by the car, we start to find out the protagonist's desire denied, sending him to early Oedipal desires. However, the protagonist sees the cars coming and is greatly excited; he wants this person to become killed before his eyes. This signifies the protagonist's - and, by extension, all humanity's - love of and desire for violence. The inherent violence inside the protagonist's Oedipal manifestations is a part of who he is.<br />
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When the protagonist begins to sexually assault his mother, she resists at first, then gradually gives in, showing the aggressive-submissive nature of human sexual relationships in general. When he is doing begin to caress her breasts, he visualizes buttocks, signifying the elements of fantasy and displacement in human sexuality, too as possibly hinting again at homosexual desires inside the protagonist (it doesn't seem possible to share with perhaps the buttocks are male or female). As he does this, his eyes roll last his head, symbolizing both the blindness aspect with the Oedipal myth as well as the more modern myth that masturbation causes blindness. The opening eye-slicing sequence can be seen as foreshadowing of this, and also the motif is repeated inside the blindness of the dead donkeys seen only at that point.<br />
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The additional symbolism with the donkeys is not immediately apparent, even to the filmmakers, for whom they represent a shared image dating time for their individual childhood discoveries of rotting donkey carcasses, as outlined by French writer Georges Bataille within an essay found in the book Visions of Excess. But despite this mutual obsession and the supposed not enough symbolism inside film, the religious metaphor with this sequence is pretty obvious: the protagonist is dragging two tablets (the Ten Commandments) which can be tied to two priests (the arbiters of religion), which can be in turn tied to two Grand pianos with dead and blinded donkeys on them. Since the protagonist struggles to succeed in his mother and satisfy his Oedipal desires, he's burdened by Christian morality, exemplified through the tablets and the priests, and a lot more so by traditional culture and classical civilization, exemplified from the pianos; the "decomposing ass-cadavers," as Bataille dubbed them, show how the filmmakers experience these type of values.<br />
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At this point a male figure, representing the protagonist's father, bursts in and begins berating the protagonist. He destroys the last vestiges of the protagonist's innocence by throwing the contents of his striped box out the window. After the inter-title: "Sixteen years before," the scene continues with out a change, again showing the untrustworthy nature of your time in the dream-world in the film, but in addition indicating the childlike nature on this part of the dream; the protagonist is being unwillingly forced into manhood. When the protagonist's father turns towards the camera following your inter-title, we see that he as well as the protagonist are actually one and also the same person. By sleeping along with his mother, the protagonist has symbolically become his father.<br />
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When the protagonist's father hands him the novel and pen, the protagonist shows a child's aversion towards the first day of school, however these objects also symbolize knowledge. When they become guns inside protagonist's hands, it may be inferred that they can represent knowledge of the Oedipal prophecy, which facilitates its fulfillment; this is an inversion in the original story, in which it is Oedipus's ignorance which brings in relation to its the prophecy's fulfillment.<br />
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When the protagonist shoots his father, the father falls out with the scene and into a field, collapsing contrary to the back of an nude woman. This woman represents the wife he has lost to his own son, his dying realization. When the men inside the field find his body, we are witness to perhaps the one literal scene in the film: that is the protagonist's dreaming remembrance from the discovery of his crime. It is uncertain how or why this murder actually came about, but the relatively realistic nature in the scene, coupled with the fact that we never understand the men inside the field before or after this, leads one to believe it is no less than an interpretation of your real-life episode.<br />
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Immediately following this, the protagonist appears like a specter of murder and incest before his mother. As he materializes away from thin air, she is staring at a "death's head" moth, symbolizing the transformation she is dealing with as being a result of her sexual encounter with her son. The specter generally seems to know adequately what she is contemplating, anf the husband covers his mouth regarding his hand, as if to say, "Tell no one." When he removes his hand, his mouth has disappeared as well, emphasizing the point. She defies him by putting on lipstick, as if to say, "I'll tell who I please." Then reminds her with the incestuous incident by growing her armpit hair where his mouth was, symbolic of cunnilingus. She is shocked and runs out of the house; the childish defiance of sticking her tongue out at him demonstrates this is still his dream, probably based over a real-life confrontation between himself and the mother.<br />
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When the protagonist's mother seduces the kid on the beach, we start to determine the transformation already hinted at through the moth: as a result of her sexual encounter with her son, she now seeks a surrogate for him inside form on this boyish youth. Like the protagonist, this youth seems both shy and aggressive, as seen by his reticent manner when she first approaches him, followed with a shot through which he shows her some time on his watch (another obsession of Dali's) his fist close to her face as if he could be striking her. She gently puts his hand down and lastly manages to hook him with a kiss, chances are they walk across the beach together. They discover the protagonist's childhood clothes as well as the youth throws them into the sea; thus, the very last vestiges in the protagonist's innocence are gone, destroyed by his own surrogate, a direct consequence of his own sin.<br />
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The inter-title, "In spring," like all of the inter-titles, defies audience expectations: instead from the traditionally lively images of spring we've arrived at expect, we understand the protagonist's mother and also the youth standing together, buried in sand past their waists and apparently dead. After casting off childish things, the inevitable stagnation and death of romantic love sets in. The positioning of the two figures is strongly reminiscent of Jean-Francois Millet's 1857-59 painting, The Angelus, a strong affect on Dali, who was simply obsessed with all the painting to get a amount of years, referencing it in a minimum of seven of his paintings between the years 1932 and 1935. Dali believed the painting had undertones of sexual tension and paternal homicide, again pointing on the Oedipal myth.<br />
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It is rumored that the youth on the beach is played by Dali himself and, based on photographs of Dali from this period, this supposition is entirely likely, at exactly the same time as appropriate, since much of the imagery in the film comes from Dali's own subconscious obsessions. In fact, the assertion that Un Chien Andalou's intention is not to produce any narrative sense seems to become Buñuel's idea over Dali's, if not just a hoax altogether. It is entirely possible that Dali, whether consciously or not, imposed a rather well-constructed Freudian storyline upon the clay from the film's scenario. From the start of his association with the Surrealists, Dali was always destined to will wind up in their own direction. Whatever the case, Un Chien Andalou stands like a proof of Surrealist art at its finest, and remains today, over 80 years later, one of the most fascinating and controversial films ever made.</div>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:44:03 GMTToboduWiguqihttp://www.aalf.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:ToboduWiguqi