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Andalusian dog "Un Chien Andalou" review

Un Chien Andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel

 director: Luis Buñuel
  Staring : Salvador Dali
  Genre : surrealistic comedy/drama



This film transports you into the young minds of surrealists.

Un Chien Andalou consists out of shocking imagery stringed together in a dreamlike fashion, each scene more obscure and unthinkable then the other. What is the meaning behind these shocking illustrations ?  nothing.

To me the film indulges the surrealist obsession with sex, religion and the absent mind. While making the film, Bñuel and Dali had one rule : nothing can have a rational explanation. For the two writers the script was no more than a vivid dream they had some time ago, but for the viewer it is much more. While watching the film one can not stop thinking of ways to link the imagery together in a rational way, so for the modern day viewer (myself included) it would be hard not to come up with an implied or metaphorical meaning. 

Still today the film contains its shock factor, watching the film has the same effect as "Pandora's box", once you try unravel meaning endless loopholes of more meaning open up, until you come to the  realization  that  they are all conflicted and only exist in your mind, no one else will have the same viewing experience as you, and perhaps that is the true beauty of this film. To me the film is much like the following quote “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” 
― Comte de Lautréamont 

This film might be hard to swallow but it is definitely worth the watch.   



                    



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