I think surrealism is a state in which the creator tries to get close to his own soul and find out the source and motivation of all his actions and thoughts. This process has to go deep into his subconscious, just like meditation in Buddhism. Epiphany. The human brain, even with such advanced technology, is still a mystery, and it is even conservative to say that human understanding of the brain is still in elementary school. Sleep and dreams are even more mysterious areas in brain science. The creator touches his own dream, hoping to express his "touch" to form something realistic. Such works can reveal the essence of human nature.
Therefore, none of these works are not incomprehensible. After all, they are derived from dreams. A large number of symbols and symbolic meanings can only be understood through personal understanding.
To distinguish it from pragmatism, I think surrealism is a doctrine of great value. If no one understands it anymore, and everyone is lazy to analyze it, wouldn’t the world be completely a puppet, and a few dictators pass through various This means to control the brainless people below, deprive souls, create false hope, and spend a life opposite to reality in a world like The Matrix. And surrealism creates a variable, breaking the surface of things and understanding the essence in a hazy way.
Interpretation of "An Andalusian Dog"
1. The moonlight and the cut eye are parallel Editing
a cloud before the moonlight, which has a formal similarity with the blade slicing through the eye.
After watching the whole film and thinking back here, the symbol may be that men make women blind (blind women's eyes), that is, love makes women blind, especially in a society with a strong sense of patriarchy at that time.
Eight years later
2. Baby clothes The man rides on the street, he hangs a box
The man wears baby clothes to express the childish side of men, and the characters symbolize a character. The box may represent the human body, the stripes symbolize reason, and the box contains the essence of human nature. At this time, it is pure childishness that the back is outside the body to express the appearance of the nature.
3. The woman is reading a book, and the picture on the book is of a woman preparing to open a gift. The man fell on his bike and the woman went downstairs to kiss.
Judging from the woman's expression, she may be very dissatisfied with his husband, she has to serve him like a baby, and there is absolutely no surprise of falling in love eight years ago. Kissing a man is exercising the care and love of a wife.
4. The woman took out the tie in the box and spread it on the bed. After a montage, the tie was suddenly fastened to the shirt.
In connection with the following, it may symbolize that the boyish side of the man is dying, and the animal side is about to appear.
5. A man stares at the ant on his hand, a woman's armpit hair, and a sea urchin
ant emerges from his hand, from the inside to the outside. Armpit hair suggestive. Sea urchins, covered in spines, suggest resistance.
This may mean the emergence of the dark side of human nature, accompanied by sexual desire. But women have an instinct to resist sudden sex.
6. A woman was playing with her severed hand on the street. The crowd watched, and the police put her severed hand in a box and handed it to the woman.
The exterior scene represents the social environment, the crowd represents the public, the police represent order, and the hand may be the hand of the man running out of the ant.
The meaning of this paragraph may be the judgment of social ethics on personal privacy. The police put the severed hand into the box, symbolizing that society requires people to hide the dark human nature and put it in the depths of their hearts. Later, the camera moved towards the men and women at the window, haha, indicating that it was the two of them.
7. A woman was killed by a car, and a man started sexually assaulting a woman.
Why is it not a man but a woman who is holding a box? This woman may be a symbol of the good side of human nature that suppresses evil. The good side dies, and evil begins to erupt. When a woman dies, the man's expression is happy. Does this mean that human nature is evil?
8. The man looks crazy, drools and rolls his eyes when he touches his breasts.
The reality is that he has been touching through the clothes, but he made up the scene of touching the naked body.
The power of sexual desire is very powerful. Hey, who hasn't had sex fantasies.
9. The woman resisted, the man had nothing to do, and then dragged out the piano and the dead cow on it, and two priests were tied under the rope (Dali Haha on the right).
I don't understand at all here, and I'm completely at a loss as to what the priest and the piano represent, and why they were dragged out.
10. The woman took the opportunity to escape, and the man chased after her and caught her hand in the door, and held it with a hand full of ants.
It's easier to understand here, the dark side is suppressed.
11. The man was lying on the bed in baby clothes, and his father appeared. Throw his costume out the window. Let him face the wall and think about the
man turning back into a baby state. His father is a very strong man, who controls him as if holding his lifeblood in his hand.
Sixteen years ago
12. In the same scene, the man's grandfather gave his father the book on the table after he had taught him a lesson. The book turned into a gun and killed Grandpa.
According to Freud, childhood events have an impact on a person's life, and Citizen Kane expresses the same meaning. Books represent knowledge, guns represent resistance.
It turned out that his father was treated like this when he was young, and he staged all this on his son. Later, he rebelled against his father after gaining self-independence.
13. When grandpa died, he died lying on the back of a naked woman.
The last moment before death turned out to be such a scene. Does this mean that one's life is actually driven by sex? This is Freud's most important point.
14. Two people appear and let the body be carried away, long view, fade out.
I don't understand here either. Maybe it means that everything is gone with the wind.
15. Fade in, go back to the woman, and see moths on the wall after entering the door.
There is a skull pattern on the moth. Is this "The Silence of the Lambs"? The original inspiration came from here, but when I watched The Silence of the Lambs, I didn't understand what the skull and moth symbolized. Think about the related words of moths. , reproduction, instinct, flutter, pupation, metamorphosis, plus skeleton, evil. Maybe these can also be associated with people.
16. The man and the woman looked at each other, then the man lost his mouth, the woman taunted him with lipstick, and then found that the armpit hair grew on the man's mouth, she was very angry, and left while sticking out her tongue to mock him.
It's really naughty, it's getting more and more difficult to understand, it may be that sex can sometimes embarrass a man, and a man can never reason with a woman. The woman changed her mind and left him.
17. The woman was on a date with another man. The two were walking by the sea and found the baby clothes that had appeared before, the box. Throw them away and move on. Fade out
here is the part near the end, it's time to summarize, echo the beginning and the end, and point the question.
Men and women are saying in their hearts, what the fuck is this? Maybe the director thinks so about his work.
18. It's spring.
Fade in, the two are dead, half into the ground.
In the end, it is not death, everything returns to zero, to nothingness.
As for why the film is called an Andalusian dog, I guess it's a random mess like Dadaism. . . .
If there are symbols, there are multi-faceted and multi-angle interpretations, just like a thousand readers in a thousand Hamlet, any kind of analysis is valuable, which is very interesting.
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