The film is a cross-border collaboration between Luis Buñuel, the father of surrealist cinema, and surrealist painter Salvador Dali. It expresses people's dreams and subconsciousness. Symbolic dreams are displayed one by one. Because I don't understand it very much, it can be said that this film actually has no symbolic meaning, but for reference, many of the following are compiled by me after screening and combining some of my own opinions.
1. Background
In 1929, when Luis Buñuel was chatting with his friend Dalí, he had no intention of talking about each other's dreams. Luis Buñuel told Dali that he had dreamed that someone's eyes had been cut not long ago, and Dalí also said that he In a dream, I saw ants crawling all over my palm. So the two got the inspiration to start the creation of the film. In writing the screenplay, Luis Buñuel and Dalí followed a simple principle: do not allow any idea, and any image, except shocking images, that might lead to any rational, psychological and cultural interpretation, Nothing else.
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1. Order and Desire
A woman is looking at a picture book featuring a painting by Johannes Vermeer. The stable composition and character weaving behavior in the painting contain the admiration for the beauty of order. The social concept of advocating a harmonious and decent family life contained in this painting echoes the deep meaning of women's expectations for the ideal family life of the middle class, conveying the message in this powerful capitalist country with a long Catholic tradition. The woman in the painting weaves a striped cushion, while in reality striped boxes and ties have always appeared. The stripes symbolize order. They decorate the women's clothing in the film and wrap the men's collars, which are the boundaries of men's desires. Order shackles the maddening instincts of human beings and shapes an orderly and elegant civilized society.
The hand is an image that appears many times, such as breaking the hand, which is the extension of desire. The black ant in the palm is also a symbol of the endless black hole of desire.
2. Several periods of the "hand"
(1) The baby's clothes when the man rides a bicycle, and his fragility when he falls, arouses the heroine's sympathy and lust, and the woman kisses and caresses him. During this period, the heroine behaves like a male mother. At this time, The male protagonist treats the appearance of ants on the palm of his hand with a surprised and doubtful attitude. The armpit is connected with sea urchins, suggesting the danger of sex and sexuality.
(2) Both the male and female protagonists saw the intersex women disguised as men downstairs fiddling with their broken hands in the crowd. According to the idea that the hand is an extension of desire, it should imply that desire should not be made public, but should be regulated by order, and the death of intersex people, I think it tends to be male in adolescence. The frankness of desire, as men become adults, they have a norm for desire, and at the same time they have a complete gender cognition (it can be seen that men are very much looking forward to being bumped by intersex people). After that, the men in the room also suddenly became aggressive and lustful towards women, even directly kneading the women's breasts and fantasizing about touching the naked women.
(3) Then the man was restrained by a large device. After the heroine escaped, the palm covered with ants reappeared, but was caught by the door and could only be closed at last (which may represent the suppression of the man's desire). The man enters a whole new space and turns into a baby again, and another man in a suit that looks just like him appears, similar to his father (I think this may be why the man turns into a baby suit again), also like He represents the rational self (superego in spiritual theory) in his heart, educates him, throws away his baby clothes, puts him in a suit and stands in the corner, and gives him books (school), but he did not expect a turn The first male protagonist turned the book into a gun and killed the other party. These two are different choices of a person, and the superego has the characteristics of fatherhood relative to the id. However, this characteristic is more the result of being disciplined by the civilized order. The rational me was killed by desire, however, this man in a plaid suit, who obeyed the ideal and orderly family life expected by women and society, exposed his true desires before he died. He hallucinated the white run back of the naked woman in the forest and rushed up to stroke it.
3. Installation: Two Catholic seminary students are tied to twine, two elegant upright grand pianos, each with the carcass of a donkey with its eyes gouged out. This symbolizes that men and their desires are kidnapped by religion, civilized society and traditional corrupt morality.
4. Moth: A metaphor for a civilized and orderly modern family with a worm-like filth and unclean instinct, which echoes the appearance of armpit hair. In the end, the heroine left to find a partner who matched her fantasy, but both died on the beach soon after. The hero was being swallowed by ants, showing the irreconcilability of desire and order.
5. Time: "An Andalusian Dog" is recognized as an anti-rational and anti-narrative film. On the one hand, because of the fluidity of the characters' identities, on the other hand, because of its smooth image time, it is impossible for people to construct according to causal logic and chronological order. A complete self-contained story. The timing cues that appear in the film are: "Once Upon a Time", "Eight Years Later", "Three in the Morning", "Seventeen Years Ago", "In the Spring", and they don't actually have any temporal impetus to the narrative. In dreams, time Often jumps or jumbles.
3. Impact
"An Andalusian Dog" was epoch-making in the annals of film history, and was regarded as the originator of surrealist films by many film theoretic schools. "An Andalusian Dog" created a precedent for film symbolism, and its historical significance has already surpassed The film itself, its brilliance lies in the creation of a new tradition, the tradition of surrealism. Linear narratives are broken by intentions and symbols, and plots that defy reality are played out in reality. Its spiritual core, its exploration of art, unleashes the diversity and possibility of film, and derives countless possibilities for the enrichment of film language.
Nineteen minutes of film parsing parses five hours. . I don't understand, the picture is very strange, so I like it
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