American film critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning Roger Ebert on Luis Buñuel 's "Beauty in the Daytime"
"It's the most famous erotic movie in modern film history, and probably the best because it captures the essence of eroticism from the bottom of my heart."
Luis Buñuel is a Spanish national treasure director. He is the leader of surrealist films in the 1930s. He is best at using dreams to show people's desires. ” ( 16 minutes in length), known as the most influential surrealist masterpiece
"An Andalusian Dog" is composed of a series of illogical, irrational, and incongruous shots. The plot is absurd, the image is weird, and the meaning of this short film is based on Freud's "Dream of Dreams". One of the methods of dream interpretation mentioned in "Analysis", the symbol of the dream, you can think of the short film as a girl's dream, she just finished arguing with her boyfriend in reality, this is the boyfriend in the dream that night. Baby clothes, showing that the man is naive at the beginning of the relationship and that the woman needs to take care of him
Anyone who has ever dreamed knows that dreams are sometimes logical and clear like a small theater, and sometimes they are chaotic and unreasonable. According to Freud, there are also unreasonable dreams , such as the house in the dream, the Boats, stoves, and wooden barrels can symbolize the womb , and walking sticks, bamboo poles, tree trunks, guns, swords, etc. can symbolize the male phallus. The most popular understanding of "An Andalusian Dog" is the complex love relationship between men and women and the different views of men and women on sex.
But the short film is too obscure and incomprehensible. This is not a standard answer, because it is illogical, imaginative, and full of threads. Therefore, to understand and interpret it from various angles and levels, it seems to be able to make sense, just like the smile of Mona Lisa. , no matter what angle you look at, she's smiling at you. That's the charm of "An Andalusian Dog". Bunuel's character likes to dream the most. Dreams are a good movie prop. Modern directors like to use fuzzy dreams. To tease the audience with a realistic approach. When things get out of hand, just let the picture go all out. It turned out to be a dream of the protagonist. Fortunately, fortunately, nothing is more than a dream. Peace in the world is what the dream refers to When the desire cannot be contained, the feeling of seeking satisfaction will be extremely strong. "Beauty in the Day" has a beauty who likes to daydream. There is a certain difference between a dream and a daydream, but in terms of expressing desire, the two are similar. The subconscious Serena is a middle-class lady, beautiful and dignified, her hair is neatly combed every day, her clothes are well-dressed, and her image is meticulous.
The husband is a surgeon, successful in his career and handsome, this is the perfect couple that should be envied by outsiders
But there are unspeakable troubles between them. Serena cannot fulfill her obligations as a wife and sleeps in a separate room with her husband. Whenever her husband wants to explore her further, Serena refuses. The husband does not want to force his wife, and turns to go back own bed
Serena is not a frigid, her desire is stronger than anyone else, she is often galloping in her sexual fantasies in those peachy daydreams, she is the victim, the abuser, she longs to be enslaved and conquered. Her husband is unaware of it. , I don't understand why Serena rejected him
Every woman has a seedling of a bitch in her heart, happy to play with men and applaud, being surrounded by them around the chastity torii to all her, being a public lover, a slut, not talking about love, but about sex Serena, who was unsatisfied at home, learned of the existence of a prostitute from a friend. She couldn't hold back her desire and was willing to become a prostitute and accept different men. It was obvious that she was not short of money. Unlike other girls who sold themselves for money, she was different from the owner of the prostitute. Anilis saw through Serena's characteristic of "eating hard but not soft", whenever Serena swayed on the moral edge, she rebuked Serena loudly, Serena immediately turned into a marionette, obedient and obedient
She enjoys being dominated and abused, which makes her extremely excited. Her sexual perversion comes from her childhood molestation experience. She is Catholic. When she confronts the priest, she feels that she is no longer pure. She made a big impact, someone much stronger than herself, making someone she couldn't resist became the stimulant of her life
The film doesn't have any sex scenes, but it draws the sexual depiction into it because the film makes you think with your head instead of your lower body, and the little friends who are going to watch this as an erotic film will be disappointed. For a woman like Serena, Sex and love are separate. She loves her husband very much, but she can't get rid of the primal desire of sex. According to Ide, people have id, ego, and superego to help us survive in society reasonably. Let the id develop at will, and eventually it will eat its own fruit. Salina's id meets the nemesis of hit, Ma Shao, this has a mouthful The sloppy man with steel teeth is generally disgusting for women to see the lotus out of the mud and not stained, while Serena is a white lotus that wants to roll in the mud
Ma Shao pestered Serena all day long, and finally ended with the tragic ending of beating Serena's husband. As for whether Serena will go back to her old business in the face of her paralyzed husband, the film gives Serena an open ending. The bell of the carriage reminded me of the carriage bell again. The bell was the signal every time she entered the fantasy. Where would the empty carriage take her?
Since her fantasies are still going on, her id will continue to conquer herself, just like a drug addiction, she can't stop. Every human being is enlightened differently, and the sexual concepts formed are also different. Except for Serena, she The clients who served also had different requirements for sex. There was an obstetrician and gynecologist who liked to play cosplay, and was also a masochist. There was also a Japanese who brought a buzzing box, and a girl shook her head after reading it. After refusing to show Serena, he told Serena not to be afraid, what was in the box, the director didn't show it but we knew it was "extremely erotic for that guest" , performance exposed the most essential of a person one side
They release their id here, and after they are done, they return to their normal lives to restore their designs about Serena's dreams. Buñuel follows the "Dream Interpretation" theory why there are always carriages in Serena's fantasy scenes. And the ringtone video has only two short references to Serena's childhood. One is a young Serena sitting on a middle-aged man's lap and being molested by him. The other is a young Serena who rejects the priest's purification in the church. The ringtone represents the church. The bell rang, the empty seat of the carriage was equivalent to a man's thigh, so whenever the carriage thinking of the bell broke into Serena's mind, she went back to the state of being molested by sitting on a man's lap in the church
When she becomes a prostitute, she fantasizes about her husband and friends throwing dirt on her, smearing her purity but she is not guilty, this insulting behavior only gives her pleasure
Buñuel likes to satirize the middle class and religion the most. Although "Beauty in the Day" is also involved, it is not the theme. When the whole society praises the one-to-one relationship between husband and wife, those who cannot get pleasure from their partners and are sexually suppressed. What to do with people can you tell the difference between love and sex? What should you do if your partner says he loves you but can't have sex with you? Threatening him with love or letting him go to find flowers and ask willows, solving physiological needs, these problems are heartbreaking, I don't know if you will encounter it, will I encounter it, we will not talk about sex, but the problem behind it is It's getting more and more serious, when can we talk about it?
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