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Un Chian Andalou Surrealism

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The Surrealists believed that the conscious mind repressed the power of imagination and dreams, weakening it by norms or taboos. They utilized unusual and untraditional techniques and phenomena to achieve subconscious creativity, eradicating the line between dream and reality. Also, Un Chien Andalou was created within the orbits of Surrealism.
The film “Un Chien Andalou” was extreme for 1929, because non-traditional art was passion of both Buñuel and Dali; therefore, they were driven to shock the common movie viewers by using bizarre surrealistic imagery in a film that was disjointed and disturbing to the masses, because of its purposeful bizarre symbolism and suggested eroticism.
“Un Chien Andalou was born of the encounter between my dreams and Dali’s.” , says Luis Bunuel in his autobiography; both Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali are known to be artists who are considered as the creators and representatives of the Surrealist movement, while challenging it in every work of them. …show more content…
The beginning is followed with a card reading “Once Open a Time”, and later it jumps to eight years later without a significant change on the characters or the events: only the sound playing in the background changes from a more joyable song to a more depressive and melancholic song. Although Adamovicz criticizes Un Chien Andalou, “…the film combines the timeliness of the fairytale (‘Once Upon a Time’) and (the more-or-less) linear development of the principal storyline…” , the film definitely have a storyline, which refers the conscious mind repressed by the

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