After reading it so many times, I was almost ready to express my opinion. People say it's a "surreal" movie, and I have a headache with the concept of "surrealism", and I really don't know anything about this big hat. Seriously, fucking surreal, what I saw in A Dog Named Andrew was the fire of human desire.
This burning feeling of desire is based on the direct feeling given to me by the director who kept crawling out of ants from the hole in the male lead's hand. This shot reminds me of the burning sensation and the itching all over my body every time I burn with lust. The desire I am talking about is very broad, including eroticism, material desire, appetite, and so on.
In our experience, the visit of desire is always unexpected, it always falls from the sky for no reason. The movie shows this very subtly. The hero and heroine were originally standing in front of the window watching a traffic accident. The hero glanced at the heroine and suddenly wanted to touch the heroine's chest, and then he really touched it. The heroine resisted instinctively a few times at first, and then she probably felt that being touched by a man on her chest was actually quite enjoyable, so she closed her eyes and enjoyed it... After a while, she suddenly realized that she was actually being touched. People invaded, and then fought back hard.
When the hero faced the heroine's resistance, he didn't know whether he wanted to tie the heroine or whip her with a rope. I saw that he picked up two ropes from the ground. Who knew that the ropes were tied to two grand pianos, and there were There were two bloody donkeys lying there. The male protagonist didn't give up the two ropes, and I saw that he pulled the two big guys with all his strength... For this, I understand it as the embodiment of the male protagonist's inner desire struggle. If there is no such struggle and struggle, the male protagonist does not need to be so persistent, he only needs to rush to the female protagonist and solve the problem. As for the two inexplicable donkeys, I don't want to pursue too much. People often say that reading a good book requires no understanding, so let's make a good movie today without asking for more!
Like the sudden appearance of the donkey, the scenes and things in the film that seem absurd and wonderfully imaginative, no matter how I look at them, I think their appearance is reasonable and interesting. The knife that Buñuel cuts through the heroine's eyes at the beginning of the film already provides a rationale for their appearance. We can understand that with that knife adventure, the heroine has the superhuman ability to see all kinds of wonderful things.
The scene changes in the movie are a bit wild, but do you remember the black and white checkered wooden box, the striped tie, and the white cloth around the hero's head, chest, waist and waist? Someone broke in and threw the things the hero was wearing out of the window. After more than ten years, the outside of the house became a seaside heroine walking on the beach with her lover and accidentally found something... This makes us have Reasons to believe that these props are the key to connecting several scenes, of course, this is just my speculation, I am not sure about anything.
"An Andalusian Dog" is a movie that still feels avant-garde even though it has been around for almost a hundred years. The connotation it contains should be richer than what I can see, but this also needs to be carefully interpreted by more academic experts. Today I can only say that it is an avant-garde film that expresses the illusory fire of desire in a very specific and meticulous manner. After watching it, I really felt a nameless fire of desire burning.
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