Since it is Buñuel, it is meaningless and fruitless to distinguish between reality and dreams, because dreams are unrealized reality. He just slyly told a joke, ridiculing the middle class in a pretentious style, the doctor husband is incompetent, the wife is so hungry that she can't give up her husband and is a child contentedly imprisoned all day long (it is also B to interpret the desires of men and women as the relationship between mother and child). hobby).
Of course, the public sees it as SM porn.
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Should be paralyzed, the husband actually stood up at the end, endlessly. In "An Andalusian Dog", the man who was killed 16 years ago walked on the beach with the woman he tried to seduce but rejected him, playing with the beach, covering the man's clothes that were thrown out the window and walking away lovingly Then the camera suddenly cuts to them buried in the sand as if they were dead. The fantasy of sexual desire can never be separated from the fantasy of death? In "The Discreet Charm of the Middle Class", these decent people can't eat a decent meal. During this period, B told you that this absurd incident was a character's nightmare, but after waking up from it, B told you that it was another A person's dream within a dream. The ambassador to Paris finally ate the cold mutton that he couldn't eat in his dream. The one in the refrigerator didn't pay attention to what wine to go with. The end of the play.
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(Review of Thompson's edition of Film History)
Modernist ambiguity, against clear-cut in its implications.
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