Rather than saying that this is a movie, it is better to say that the director uses the pictures to interweave the dreams one by one. The pictures are imaginative and whimsical, and the content has a strong Freudian color. Dreams come from life, but they are higher than life. I think this is surrealism.
To be honest, I think that apart from the director himself, very few people can understand this film, and those who are full of praise for it are obviously pretending to be B. The film itself does not tell a complete story, there is no plot, there are only a group of illogical and irrational shots, as well as the incongruous combination of strange and grotesque images, just like the jumping thinking and inexplicable people and things in people's dreams. Even the title of the film has nothing to do with the content.
Some critics believe that the pictures in the film are imitations of dreams and have symbolic meanings, which can be analyzed and explained by Freudianism, such as sexual repression and resistance. Some film historians also object to such a simple attachment to the film. They believe that the director is under the influence of surrealist paintings, using the film form to pursue unreasonable absurd effects and an obsession with poetic new metaphorical techniques. However, through the frantic and stimulating pictures, it is not difficult for people to feel the distress and depression of the times expressed by the film. The director has a deep experience of this, so he uses cruel imagery and shocking visual effects, such as a sharp razor cutting a person's eyeball, a human head hanging under a giant clock, etc. Anarchist rebellion. Therefore, the film has become a "portrait of blindly rebellious young intellectuals", and the real emotion expressed by this powerless angry cry gives this film an atmosphere of human tragedy.
I think "An Andalusian Dog" is considered a classic because it was an epoch-making discovery of cinematic form and visible language. It allowed surrealism to develop, and in the long run, it had a far-reaching influence on the mainstream of cinema. Breaking people's consistent cognition of film art, integrating imagination into the picture, lights and smoke constantly coming out of the projector, and the illusion of goodwill continues to increase, thus changing the intermittent rhythm of early silent films, and refreshing the way people make people There is more intense sensory stimulation. The work has also been cited by "Elements of Cinema" author Bob Bock as "one of the most influential works in the history of cinema - for its pioneering use of symbolism, omitted imagery and impressionistic editing techniques".
Indeed, the film has its greatness. But ask yourself, how many people really like or even stick with the movie? At least, I don't want to watch it a second time.
2010-07-05
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