The Exterminating Angel Comments

  • Cordelia 2022-12-10 22:35:27

    Breaking through the cage becomes especially difficult when human beings have been in some kind of stagnant spiritual fence for a long...

  • Federico 2022-11-12 12:27:04

    The idea of ​​inexplicably being unable to leave the house after the banquet was a brilliant idea; the result was that a group of well-dressed "nobles" were exposed, and the irony effect was wonderful. Buñuel, God...

  • Jackson 2022-10-28 17:50:39

    The tacit and unspoken promises to each other in social etiquette are the fragile peace that ideology makes between the mind and the body. The opening ten minutes have already suggested that the reason for not being able to leave is: the perception that "leaving means not being able to return". A terrifying possibility, aware of the inexorable samsara of eating and sleeping, so the act of breaking social tacit provokes a struggle between the linear view of time that the mind believes in and the...

  • Cathryn 2022-09-28 18:13:43

    The screening accident has created a lot of magical jokes, but the happiest time is when the door suddenly can't be opened when exiting. The uncle next to me said, Oh, may be we should wait til everyone else get...

  • Marcus 2022-09-19 06:04:13

    1. Missed the opportunity to leave, and the people in the hotel followed suit, causing everyone to fall into the predicament of life. They couldn’t live without it, and they could only sit and wait. The essence and weaknesses of human nature began to be exposed; 2. To Buñuel Absurdity can't be...

  • Hillard 2022-09-18 11:01:40

    6th 20210125 Watched it again, my favorite movie. The host held a dinner party, the servants and chefs left early, and everyone who attended the banquet was troubled by mysterious power and could not leave. Think of Hans in "The Magic Mountain" who was stranded in a nursing home for nearly ten years. In real life, it may be even worse, and some people are trapped in some kind of conscious complex for a...

  • Jayda 2022-09-08 18:59:53

    4.5.1. The servants leave and the middle class arrives, and the two classes naturally part ways; 2. The "curse" of being unable to get out stems from a state of existence with class attributes. Attitude, enjoyment and status, even if this state is accompanied by spiritual hunger and disagreement; 3. The inability to enter is the difficulty of breaking the class barrier, and it is even more indifferent to the scrutiny of bystanders; 4. Even if you walk out of this room, temporarily After...

  • Chance 2022-06-13 23:01:11

    Formally, it is inversely related to Buñuel's famous later "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", an unfinished dinner and a room that cannot be left, but similar in content, the 'room' becomes a closed and conservative interior. The symbol, the end of the church forms a repetition: power politics and Christian culture bear the brunt of the tide. In a closed environment, people's high-sounding disguise in society is stripped away and only the original desire for survival is...

  • Rodolfo 2022-06-13 21:21:01

    A mirror image of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Representing the Spanish ruling class, they celebrated their victory over the working class with a feast, only to discover that the feast would never end. These people are imprisoned in their own bourgeois cul-de-sac. Of course, Buñuel never shows his political symbols to much fanfare, and the film is just an unusually dry comedy that is best explained by its lack of...

  • Rickey 2022-06-13 20:35:28

    1. [The prudent charm of the bourgeoisie] Prelude (no food to eat vs no food to leave), but less cinematic and less free. 2. Not only ridicules the middle class and Catholics, but also self-imprisonment and even cocooning is a magical barrier that is difficult for mortals to break through. 3. Surreal omens with two banquets and repeated introductions. 4. Chicken feet in handbags, nightmares of crawling with broken hands, breaking water pipes to grab water, bears and slaughtered lambs. 5. The...

Extended Reading
  • Jaclyn 2022-10-08 04:50:23

    get out of the magic barrier

    Can't get out of the predicament, the curse? Even more magic.

    Last shot: Under the sound of gunfire, the obedient lambs escape into the church.

    The house is the shelter, and it is the grave of the living dead.
    The role of time here disappears. Life just repeats day after day.

    Obedience to the...

  • Brain 2022-10-07 09:23:59

    Kafka's Absurdity and Dalí's Transfiguration

    From a creator's point of view, sometimes works are just to break through one form, and the feature of works in the 20th century is to break through all forms before the 19th century.

    Luis Buñue's 1962 work, describing inexplicable happenings, is surreal, clearly Kafka-esque, and also has Dali's...

The Exterminating Angel quotes

  • Carlos Conde; Doctor: The most important thing is to keep our heads. There's nothing worse than panic. This situation can't go on indefinitely. We're not under some spell. This isn't some sorcerer's castle. Only by dispassionate analysis can we get to the bottom of our inaction.

  • Raúl: You led us into this trap. You made us the butt of this cruel joke.

    Edmundo Nobile: I have, my friend? By inviting you to dinner? By opening my doors to you?

    Raúl: Exactly. You called us one by one to come for dinner after the opera. Such a cordial invitation. "I'd be honored if you would..." et cetera. We could have been sound asleep at home or in some brothel, instead of here.