★★★★★ 10/10
A surreal image of a dream.
Semiotic carnival.
People's subconscious language is out of text and irrational, and the film is a pure dream record. Analyzing it rationally would have been boring and even ruined the deep feeling I had just finished watching, but I did it anyway.
Thin clouds slid across the moon, blades slashed eyeballs. Ants on men's hands, armpit hair and plants like hairballs make the armpits itch. The extreme and beautiful imagination, especially the cut eye, reveals a certain religious meaning and a sense of sacred ritual. Two sets of expressive metaphorical shots suggest the contrast between dream and reality. The human brain surrealizes real events and stores them in the subconscious mind. It may reflect a person's emotional or psychological state at a certain stage.
The performance of dream control. The woman controls the clothes on the bed. The man became murderous and turned the book in his hand into a gun.
The illogicality of the character's psychological behavior. The man saw the car accident outside the window and fell into grief one second, and the next second he looked at the woman beside him and became lustful. People are lacking in memory in dreams, and they do what they think of. The switching of breasts and buttocks shows different subconscious understandings of the same shape.
Pull the piano. Fast switching of events without logic and uncontrollable. Making rich associations. A tangible manifestation of resistance. Unhappy feeling.
A woman's final death is a man's subjective choice. Hate in its most direct form.
The dream and some of its components must have symbolic meaning. But it seems foolish to analyze its symbolism now, and they represent something personal, which should not be understood. It is enough to experience the language charm of images.
Also, the fast pace of the film doesn't have any problems. Bruel is not meant to express a certain emotion or feeling. I think he prefers to treat the film as purely a record of dreams, where events change rapidly and the time scale of dreams is much shorter than reality.
The 16-minute video reminded me of those surreal dreams I had. Maybe dreams are the real great filmmakers, and the great thing about Bruel is that he recorded this dream that existed in someone's subjective subconscious from an objective point of view. As long as my eyes are on the screen, I am a guest in this dream.
Andalusian Dog is undoubtedly a beautiful and great debut work, a gem within the framework of surreal art. It broke away from the shackles of the traditional film evaluation system in the 1920s and flew to the sky full of freedom and imagination.
Thanks for the image.
eliasliao 13/01/2019
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