Un Chien Andalou-Review



Un Chien Andalou is a short film by Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí in 1929. This film was released during Surrealism and consisted of bizarre circumstances over a duration of 20 minutes. Through the bizarreness there are underlying themes and symbols. For instance, the box is the only symbol that is consistent and reoccurs in this films entirety. The ants are symbolic since they resemble the Catholic religion and Jesus being nailed to the cross. The ants also appear in Salvador Dalí's paintings-including the one above. The hands are also repeated and showed many instances were they are used-both sexually and painfully. There was a constant feeling of guilt that was portrayed. There are many risky and promiscuous scenes. When the man is assaulting the woman by touching her breast this resembles lust and how easy humans give into sexual actions. The woman appears androgynous which breaks gender norms and sexuality. I believe this short film is- in a way- a compilation of the seven deadly sins.

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