Accidentally watched a master movie

Hannah 2022-03-21 09:03:26

It's a shame that I didn't know it was the last work of the famous "Bunuel" when I bought it. Just thought the plot was more interesting. Basically it's a mistake.
After watching the related introduction, I found that this is a "textbook-style" movie, full of a lot of metaphors, symbols and vague innuendo to society.
Regrettably, I am so ignorant of talent that I don't really see that the chasing game between a rich old man and a beautiful girl can reflect the irreconcilable antagonism of the two classes.
Perhaps it is simpler to think of it as a film about desire and love that reveals complex human nature.
This is a question of "interpretation".
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the heroine in the movie is amazing.

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Extended Reading
  • Virgil 2022-03-21 09:03:26

    For the Freudian deconstruction of love, two actors with different appearances and personalities play the same role at the same time, symbolizing a woman who coexists with two personalities of "restraint" and "indulgence". Hazy, it is the indifference of human nature, it is the elusive and erratic relationship, it is Bunuel's strong apocalyptic lament and anxiety about terrorism. I will watch this 1977 posthumous work again today after decades. Nuel has great foresight

  • Janis 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    8.5/10. ①A middle-class old male protagonist told a group of passengers on the train about his past with a young woman: he coveted a young body and wanted to possess her, and the woman hanged him for economic reasons, until the woman cheated into the mansion and tore his face. Opportunity to rape her. Interlude. ② No matter what the director's motive was for the two women to play the roles, it does not only exaggerate the mystery of the heroine in the eyes of the hero, but also conforms to the subjectivity of memory. ③The silky and graceful feeling of various textbook-like scene scheduling/movement mirrors fits the delicate temperament of the characters. ④The absurd humor comes from the plot itself or various abnormal elements: the mousetrap that catches the mouse, the fly in the wine glass, the old man with the sack, the heroine's intricately knotted underwear, the bloody clothes sewn at the end, etc. ⑤ The second half of the filming was too serious and serious, which did not match the lightness of the previous banter. Fortunately, the ending was back on the right track; the connection between various inserted terrorist news/plots and the main line is doubtful.

That Obscure Object of Desire quotes

  • Mathieu: My Conchita...

  • Mathieu: I respect love too much to go seeking it in the back streets.