Un Chien Andalou (1929)

To me, this movie is perfection.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Good, entertaining, but what the hell happened? So there was a couple but then one of them died and their ghost haunts the girl? And then the girl moves out to get man who torments the ghost back?? But the ghost kills him and his body is dumped in a random field where he barely grasps a memory of the girl??? But then it was all just a dream and the couple is actually living happily on the beach???? but then they're dead?????

People do not know how to deal with meaninglessness because they spend their entire lives looking for truths that guide them. It is desperate when they encounter something clearly meaningless that they can not control. But .... Life, in itself, boils down to that, does not it?

Some believe that horror lies in the unknown: the monsters, ghosts, werewolves, aliens and psychopaths of our imaginations, but others realise that true horror lies in what we do know, what we're forced to know: the everyday repressive and oppressive sexual and social atmosphere of normal daily life; the smothering banality of a repetitive existence.Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí were anything but banal. Their masterpiece of Freudian surrealism, 'Un Chien Andalou' presents for your enjoyment the bizarre world of 'sex' -- lust versus fear; boredom versus insanity; guilt versus freedom; the male versus the female. Being a sexual male is a terrifying, oppressive, confusing and painful experience; being a sexual woman is even more so. 'Un Chien Andalou' successfully painted this age-old picture in a daring new language.Whether a grinning male watches from his window as an androgynous woman with a severed hand in a box is mowed down by a car, or a woman shuts her aggressively advancing partner's hand in the door to trap him (a hand which is bleeding ants, stigmata-style), or a man is chastised for his lust by a father-figure (who is revealed as the woman's new lover and is shot to death by the original) -- or whether, infamously and iconically, a hand (Buñuel's, in a brief cameo) slashes a woman's eyeball from its socket (is the razor the penis and the eyeball the hymen?), this film's tone is one of extreme sexual anxiety. It's the same unbearable universe of queasy, uncomfortable dream logic angst that David Lynch borrowed from Buñuel and turned up to ten for his horrifying and often misunderstood 'Eraserhead', almost half a century later. But it's no more weird, really, than a cloud passing by the moon. But it's as violent as a razorblade to the eye.Luis Buñuel once said, "If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply, 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams'." It's a shame that this unforgettable dream of his lasts for only seventeen minutes.

Luis Bunuel's and Salvador Dali's surrealistic 'An Andalusian Dog' was their first and it is called the seminal surrealist film. The film has no plot, or at least in the conventional sense, and is built up like a dream sequence with seemingly random scenes. But it's not meant to be a dream, it's just a different world (or a parallel universe if one wishes). Bunuel and Dali didn't meant to contrive a plot that could make sense. Even the title was intended to make any sense.This film has also given us one of the most memorable and haunting scenes in the history of the cinema - slicing a woman's eyeball with shaving knife. And this horrifying image probably has brought many people to see this surrealistic gem.This film is notable also because it was one of the first real independent film that was made without any studio support on a shoestring budget. 'An Andalusian Dog' has influenced many independent filmmakers throughout history. An of course it has been influence to many surrealist artist and even for a Sex Pistols.Probably everyone who are half interested about film in general will find this film one day.