Bunuel’s feature film debut was banned for many years due to anti-religious features. Although the film is still full of surreal shots and paragraphs with symbolic metaphors, the director's thematic intentions are still clearly displayed. Dali participated in the screenwriting
The film describes the crazy love between a man and the daughter of a marquis. It is subjected to many hardships from the police and high society in reality, especially the church’s "sticky mandarin ducks", which violently criticizes the existing system and the high society. At the same time, he also reflected on the propositions of sex, depression, and death. Throughout the film, it is mostly a visual image that violates general conventions, and the degree of freedom is also amazing.
