I believe that sooner or later we will see the annihilation angel in reality

Jedidiah 2022-10-18 02:28:24

Why is Buñuel a magical director? Because I'm writing this review while watching the movie, and just finished writing the title, it's like I've seen a ghost: spilled water glass, computer freezes, there's a lot of noise outside, all of which is like it's from Buñuel's It's the same thing that came out of the silver screen, and now I see these dignitaries killing sheep, praying, and discussing the plot of someone to sacrifice.

If you don't admit that Buñuel is the greatest director of all time, then you have to admit that he can do what the greatest director of all time can't. Only Buñuel can elicit the most absurd and inexplicable behavior through the language of one camera after another, a bear breaking into a banquet, and then everyone is still talking crazy in earnest; strange hands and prayers The passages are seamless; the sissy says a lady combing her hair is ugly, sparking a conflict, and all these 1930s Parisian coffeehouse surrealist brains come to Buñuel's lens like a meal Drinking water is like no trace. Buñuel is a world champion who grotesques the mundane, and there are no words to describe Buñuel's extraordinary talent for expressing neuroses and hallucinations.

In the end, I couldn't tell whether I was dreaming or not. It was not the characters but the audience, because each character began to repeat the previous lines, and then formatted themselves, and finally rushed out of the room smoothly, shutting the audience inside and continuing to be clueless. . Every frame of the film seems to imitate some kind of distorted ritual, you can call it semiotic or not, but the final shot in the street is a bit out of place.

A lot of bad articles must say that this film is a mockery of the bourgeoisie and the church. I'd love to know how the cast of this film saw it and how they acted, and I don't want to comment on anything until then. All I know is that this is a genius movie from a genius, one of the few movies that shocked and delighted me.

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  • Edmundo Nobile: Everything was perfect, Lucia, despite - at this hour even lipstick begins to fade.

  • Edmundo Nobile: I love the spontaneity of this situation. If you'd like to spend the night, we'll make up as many rooms as needed. I'm pleased to see the old spirit of improvisation is alive and well.