Dalí and Buñuel had worked together on at least two films, and when "Dogs" was filmed, Buñuel was 29 and Dalí was 24, and had just been expelled from school for the second time. Dalí loved movies, and everyone knows Hitchcock's "Dr. Edward." He was the art director and painted the famous sets in those dreams. Hitchcock was originally a beauty, and he was a great director in order to use Dalí as a beauty, otherwise... Hehe.
"Dog" is a silent film with a total length of more than 16 minutes. A very avant-garde, purely sensory film, it is a synthesis of the dreams of Dali and Buñuel, both of whom were followers of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Dalí's favorite ant appeared, and Bunuel's favorite dead donkey. Dalí played a priest, and Bunuel played a man with a knife. Without a certain story, without any intention, Buñuel said afterwards: "Our only principle is simple, no idea or image can lead to a rational acceptable interpretation. We are to open all doors to the irrational, to understand These images that surprised us, don't try to explain the reasons." Once these words came out, no one dared to analyze this film for nearly 100 years, and those who analyzed were laughed at by everyone, and they were detained by the gangster. The hat kicked out with big feet. I don't want to be kicked by anyone, and I won't pretend to understand here, so I'll give you some information, you can refer to it when you read it in the future.
The most famous shot is watching a woman's eyes being slashed by a knife, half a second after the poster above. Anticipating a huge resentment from audiences, Buñuel filled his pockets with rocks on premiere day, ready to hit back at those who spat at him. The premiere audience included great artists such as Picasso, and achieved great success and praise, which made Buñuel, who delusionally stand on the opposite side of the people, frustrated, and even more frustrated that he was also because of the popularity of the film. It was considered a very uncool thing by the surrealist art camp to be close to mainstream movies. After being questioned by the surrealist theorist Breton, he got the result of being swept out of the house. Therefore, the literary and artistic youth are all forced, forming gangs, self-righteous, and less kind than the underworld.
The most common comment about the title of the film is that it's also part of the surreal, because most people don't think there's a dog or anything related to it in the film at all. I have slightly different opinions on this point. There is a lens in the middle, a close-up of the moth, and the markings on the back look like a dog's face! But the mastering is too old, I'm not very sure, and I don't understand what it means, I'll just say that, just say that~
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