Psychology has such a conclusion - in the early stages of a relationship, you will not remember the content of the chat with your partner, and will only leave some vague impressions of him, tenderness or wisdom, shyness or humor. This is because we focus more on the emotional experience of being in love. Likewise, most dreams are reflections of the prevailing emotions at a certain time in our lives, that is, dreams are not telling you a story, but deepening a certain emotion. "An Andalusian dog is barking, a nightmare is coming."
Cutting eyes is an expression of ignorance and blindness, boxes and hands are expressions of desire, ants crawling out of a man's hand and a woman's body hair turning into thorn balls are anxiety and fear of sexual maturity and sexual contact.
I personally think that the short film is formed by the interweaving of the dreams of the hero and heroine. Women fear and avoid sexual contact. The woman on the street poking her "broken hand" with a stick is her sense of self, a symbol of her desire to express sexuality; male sexuality is coveted and suppressed. His self-consciousness urged him to release his desires.
The "police" took away the "broken hand" and the man dragged the piano to the death of the Taoist priest, expressing the prejudice that men and women are bound by social control and traditional morality. The death of self-consciousness and the abandonment of situational restraints imply that men and women put aside their prejudices; women show men armpit hair, men grow hair after missing mouths, and sexually provocative behaviors point to the ending of the two breaking the cage and releasing their desires.
The soundtrack is a little more cramped, a little doubtful, and a little hesitant in the cheerfulness, which brings out a strong sense of tension and adds more bizarre colors to this escaped and grotesque dream.
The woman's emotional contradictions are complicated. Maybe I paid too much attention to her anxiety and fear of sexual maturity, so that the whole short film only left me with such an impression. Regarding the awakening of traditions and morals, instincts and desires, and sexual concepts, it is unknown whether society can give new answers today.
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