Un Chien Andalou

The Burning Giraffe 

Un chien Andalou is a 1929 surrealist short film that was completely silent, other than dramatic background music, and in black and white. Personally, I felt the film was very weird. The film was very random, although had many symbolic actions throughout the entire film. The beginning of the film starts off with a man sharpening a razor, and then shows the man cutting an eye with the razor, which looks like the eye of the woman who is sitting next to him, but it was actually the eye of an animal. The end of the film shows two men, one in which symbolizes a father and the other a son, and the father figure is somewhat punishing the son, making him take off the clothing he was wearing and putting him in the corner. The son figure then shoots the father figure out of anger.