Section 1: Film – Oedipal Trajectories in Un Chien Andalou
Surrealism, having stemmed from Dadaism in its pursuit for the rejection of orthodox art, protested the public sensibilities of the eclipsing, rational bourgeois, by catering to mediums of cinematography and film. Though the depiction of surrealism can be accredited in paintings as well, there remains to be great significance in the implementation of film in the demonstration of this avant-garde movement as only film is capable of capturing and conveying to the viewer the illusion of motion. Comparatively, the depiction of Surrealist film is grounded on the construction of a disoriented chaotic impression.
Among many Surrealist films, Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou has been appraised as one of the most brilliant presentations of Surrealism, primarily due to a lack of familiarity to this concept as well as the incessant desires audiences possessed to discover symbolic interpretations and meaning that could be applied in relevance to a universal social construct. However, the immediacy of the employment of mise-en-scène elements in the overture of the film deviates from any…show more content… This can be interpreted to insinuate that the protagonist may retain homosexual tendencies which may explain his endearment towards the androgynous person who poked at the hand on the street. Additionally, the protagonists action in which his eyes roll above his eyes may be depict the loss of sight experienced by Oedipus as well as antique myths concerning masturbation as having a correlation to complications in health often deemed as erectile dysfunction. The introduction to the male figure who is assumed to be the father is delineated by his aggressive demeanor to which the protagonist challenges only to fulfill the prophecy to have murdered his father and sleep with his
