Interpreting an Andaru Dog in Class

Celine 2021-12-21 08:01:12

When I was in the modernism class today, the teacher showed the film and interpreted it one by one and recorded it briefly.

·First of all, she said that it is very important that every shot and every plot of this movie is carefully designed, so there is no point that is meaningless.

·The title of the movie is written with the names of two leading actors, which means that the repetitive roles in this short film are mainly played by a male lead and a female lead.

·This film is mainly influenced by the analysis of Freud’s dream, which shows that all kinds of human desires are suppressed in the dream. The whole short film can be regarded as a "dream".

·At the beginning, a man cut off with a woman's eyes open. This shot has two meanings. One of them is to awaken the audience. This "shock" effect is also one aspect of the pursuit of surrealist artists. Second, it implies that everything that the audience "sees" does not need to be viewed visually.

·A teenage male (it is emphasized here that even if the actors seem to be not young, but the whole story tells the story of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenager, this is very important) riding a bicycle on an empty street, dressed to watch It looks like a series of costumes dressed up by nuns, suggesting that young men's pursuit of female characteristics. A bar-shaped wooden box hung on the chest.

·There is a close-up on the wooden box, which shows that the wooden box needs a key to open.

·The young girl was reading in the room and heard the noise outside. She put down her book and got up to read. The picture on the book is The Lacemaker by the Dutch painter Vermeer.

·The hostess rescued the male host back home, the hostess took the key to open it, and found that there was a tie inside.
The tie represents the male proprietor’s masculinity.

·The hostess arranges all the clothes on the bed (I’m not very clear here, the teacher is passing by.

·The hostess looks back at the male lead, he is staring at the ants on his hands crawling out of his palms. The ants represent death. It's like an ant lying on a dead insect carcass.

·A woman poked her broken hand on the ground with a wooden pole and attracted various onlookers. Then the police came and put her hand in the strip wooden box. Then the woman was hit and killed by a car. The male protagonist and the female protagonist were onlookers upstairs.
This woman is a woman herself hidden in his heart, and after being hit to death, it implies the loss of the male protagonist's female side.

After the female was killed, the male protagonist fully vented his male side, and suddenly began to chase the female protagonist and carry out a series of harassment. The female protagonist hid in the corner and symbolically picked up the tennis racket to express resistance. The male protagonist was entangled in two pianos, two Spanish police officers, and dead animal carcasses, and could not attack the female protagonist.

The piano represents culture, the police represents morality, and animal carcasses are used as sacrifices to represent religion. Together they represent the "super-ego", which is also super-ego. This scene represents that the hero's superego is preventing him from being completely masculine.

·The male protagonist in nun costume was lying on the bed. His father rang the doorbell angrily and rushed in, threw all his clothes outside, and punished him to stand in the corner. Subtitles, sixteen years ago.
The sixteen years ago here refers to the timeline of the male protagonist's father sixteen years ago. He thought that he was treated similarly by his father sixteen years ago. So the feeling of anger spontaneously emerged, turning the book into a pistol and shooting his father. Then his father fell in the woods, thinking of the female body before he died. Although he is dead, there are no wounds on his body, which shows that everything is just imagination.

·The hostess came home and saw a moth and the male lead. The male lead covered his mouth and disappeared. Then the female lead’s armpit hair grew on the male lead’s mouth. The hostess walked out to the beach and saw a completely masculine and serious male lead. The male lead blamed her for not being punctual. The two of them kissed me and walked along the beach.

·I met the nuns' clothes that his father had thrown away at the beach. They picked them up like trash, looked at them, and threw them aside.

·The last scene is that they die on the beach.

Surrealist artists think that the sixteen or seventeen-year-old is the most fascinating group of human beings because they have unlimited potential and an unknown future. The two male and female protagonists in the film finally died at the beach because they were no longer attractive and became boring and normal "adults".

I don’t understand some details very well, but I can basically understand the intention of the whole film under the teacher’s interpretation, and I have benefited a lot~

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