Un Chien Andalou

Luis Bunuel is one of my favorite filmmakers, but sometimes it's a sad situation with him. His idea is to challenge norms and be such a radical personality that labeling him is lost and one has to suffice with calling an anarchistic filmmaker. It's just only a select few of his films truly approach the promise of his talents. An Andalusian Dog, his first classic work, features the subject and themes that would show up later in his later films. Detailing the work as shocking skims the surface. It has always been inherent in Bunuel's personality to be as such, but the surrealist dream in An Andalusian Dog has a lot of excellent craftmanship but no logical connection to all the imagery. To make the excuse the story is a dream and thus without a story is a rationalization. The whole point of dream theory is that it follows a line of subconscious thinking that underscores our life fears, but the point of a creative work of art is that it interprets those feelings. Salvador Dali, the co-creator of this film, once did a surrealist painting of a dream and showed it to Sigmund Freud. Dali wanted to know if he had re-created the world of dreams. Freud said he did but asked what else there was to it? Bunuel recreates a dream in Andalusian Dog, but it's an imitative process instead of an interpretative one. The point is to create a dream work that exudes ideas instead of just imagery. Bunuel's career after Andalusian Dog makes the film easier to understand, but it's really just a series of images .