It opens with a shockingly graphic scene of a man slicing a woman's eyeball with a cutthroat razor. It's the zenith of the scenes this film is infamous for. Other odd imaging includes a man staring at ants on his hand as they seemingly heal a wound; a woman being knocked over by a car (quite comically slowly); a man dressed as a nun riding a bike. It's full of them.
Okay I will put my hands up. I just don't get it. i completely understand the concept of surrealism and applaud it's place in art, but I just think there are some dreams you need to keep to yourself. I can accept that these are the origins of film, but I can quite easily live a full life without seeing this AND L'Age D'Or. Of the two, I'd have picked this one to see as it's best feature is it's length. Ironically, like a dream, it's 16 minute duration felt much much longer.
Merci rien!
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Look familiar? Yes it's the Death Head Moth(Acherontia lachesis) as seen in The Silence of the Lambs. It also makes an appearance here. I wonder if it's on IMDB?!
Since I was a kid, everyone mentioned the scene with the eye and the blade. I didn't know who Buñuel was, but got fixated with that comment about the eye being cut by the blade. Then I forgot about it until one day I borrowed from a friend who had it and my disappointment was huge!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't make anything out of that scene!
It lasts probably 3 nanoseconds!
I love some of Buñuel's movies, but I guess I waited far too long for this one and it didn't quite satisfied my curiosity!