Un Chien Andalou Film Reaction


Title: "Jose Roosevelt"
Painted By: Salvador Dali

The Film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929) was a short film by Luis Bunuel, a Spanish director. This film relates to the surrealism art era consisting of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations. This film reflected surrealism by using juxtaposing images. My reaction to the film "Un Chien Andalou"  was that it was very strange from any other movie I've seen and I am a film major so I've seen a lot of films before. But, this was by far the weirdest one ever. I found this movie to be odd because of many different factors that went into the film. The first being that one object would change into another. For example, the women arm pit hair changed into grass. Another example, is when the women would change from being clothed to nude. The movie also had a lot of symbols such as the ants being a reoccurring symbol in the film that is also seen in Dali paintings, the whole in the hand symbolizes the catholic religion, and much more symbols used throughout the film. Furthermore, this film had a very unique style. I am not sure if I would ever watch this film on my own time however, it was interesting to see the symbols that were put throughout the film. Therefore, it was a different take of the normal cinematic films.

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