Un Chien Andalou

A French surrealist silent film from 1929 presents its audience with some of the most striking scenes to ever be shown on the big screen. The opening scene shows a man standing behind a woman with a razor blade then the camera has a close up on the womans face as the man slices open her eye. The scenes in this short film dont really have anything to do with each other and the goal the directors, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dal, were wanting to achieve was simply to shock the viewers. In the first showing of the film the audience started throwing things at the screen and then charged the projection booth to tear apart and destroy the actual film itself. Needless to say Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dal couldnt have been happier with the reactions the film provoked. Almost every scene is random with a bunch of strange stuff like a hole located in the main characters hand, where ants live. Still though its not to say that the film is just a bunch of independant scenes becuase the film has some sort of story but the story just doesnt make any sense. The film has multiple themes including lust and death. In one scene the main character is trying to rape a woman but then suddenly gets stuck trying to pull two grand pianos, each stuffed with the putrefying remains of a donkey, as he continues to try to move toward her. The accompanying music can make a lot of the scenes in the film seem really funny but then in the next scene you might get freaked out again. Watching this film, although the film is 70+ years old, almost everyone will be shocked by the opening razor blade scene and the other scenes to come. The film is a really interesting part of history but also is still fun to watch as well as being perhaps the stragest film I have ever seen.