kiekeo Good, entertaining, but what the hell happened? So there was a couple but then one of them died and their ghost haunts the girl? And then the girl moves out to get man who torments the ghost back?? But the ghost kills him and his body is dumped in a random field where he barely grasps a memory of the girl??? But then it was all just a dream and the couple is actually living happily on the beach???? but then they're dead?????

antoniocasaca123 People do not know how to deal with meaninglessness because they spend their entire lives looking for truths that guide them. It is desperate when they encounter something clearly meaningless that they can not control. But .... Life, in itself, boils down to that, does not it?

daphnexulu Un Chien Andalou is a compelling silent-movie depicting the nonsensical dreams of Luis Bunuel and collaborator Salvador Dali. Establishing himself as a surrealist and a unique visionary, Bunuel uses violence, sex and shock to create a wonderful nightmarish concoction of reality and fantasy. The director blurs the lines regarding to "what is" and "what is not". Written in just three weeks, Un Chien Andalou is perhaps one of the most profound films in cinema and a beacon of artistic compulsion. The film is not nearly as clean nor structured as Bunuel's later works, yet it is a fantastic reference to "where it all began" and beautifully summarises Bunuel's legacy as a filmmaker.

meclote Analyzing the film we realized that the sexual identity and gender marks are very much exposed. Interpreting this gender messages through the film may have a lot of subjectives opinions since this is a surrealist movie. However one way to understand this film can be related with the growing process of the human being itself.Humans are constantly in an internal search for who they really are, specially when it comes to find their own gender identity. This movie is a reflection of that internal process in which we try to always fulfill the gender stereotypes society has forced on us.At the beginning of the movie a man that is looking at the moon and a cloud passing through it , cuts the eye of a woman. The moon a usual female symbol can be related with the eye of the woman and its circular shape , while the phallic shape of the cloud can be related to the razor and its elongated and masculine characteristic. On this scene the cutting of the eye may represent the sexual penetration. Although some interpretations stated that the prologue of the film it is not related with the plot itself, for me the prologue is in fact an anticipation of what the film will be all about. The female and male symbols start to appear and its showing us already this bi dimension we live in.In one of the first scenes we see a cyclist man dress in a very feminine way wearing frills and with a box on his hands. His androgynous aspect show us his sexual immaturity. This part can be interpreted as our teenage years in which the gender identity it is not completely defined, we are still deciphering who we are.Latter the same man is in a room with a girl. He is now wearing menswear and a very symbolic masculine element a "tie". At this point in the film the two very contrasting elements the frills and the tie defining by the society as feminine and masculine are very much exposed to show us the man's ambiguous sexual inclination.Another gender mark is reflected on the movie when a woman that its on the street is wearing men clothing looking very androgynous. The girl on the street may represent the female alter ego of the man. She plays with a mutilated "right" hand. The right side its known as been the masculine side of our bodies. This part can be interpreted as a castration or fear of loosing the masculinity. Once she is killed , his masculinity seems to be reinforced and we know that because of his desire for the opposite sex (the girl).Finally his sexual repression its been released by touching the woman's breast. For me this part can be interpreted as the first erotic experience humans have in which all our sexual desires are released even just with something as simple as a touch. But the man suddenly among his gender confusion imagine a butt were the breast are, a very ambiguous symbol, since it could be either for man or woman (homosexual inclination). The woman who its been showed constantly during the movie as a defined female reject's him.In the next scene the woman and the man start a fight, he pulls a string with certain elements like religious books, two priest, and a piano. This represents the causes of his sexual frustration such as the cultural,religious and social norms that all humans should follow to be part of the society.Latter we can see the man again wearing the female clothing but another man also appears, who seems to be the his twin but in a very masculine version (Tie symbol, again). This new man punishes him and throws away all the man's female clothing. According to my own thoughts this man may also represent his male alter ego , that at the end is also killed.After that the interpretation I can get is that the man now is completely lost he has rejected both his female alter ego (homosexual inclination) and also his male alter ego (heterosexual inclination). Falling to defined his gender identity , the woman leaves him.Of course everyone has their own interpretation about the film. What do you think?