Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Un Chien Andalou


The famous opening scene, the full moon and a woman’s eye being cut shocked me again.

But the most intersting scene was the one with ants at this time. In Dali’s painting, "The Persistence of Memory," ants were on the pocket watch. The pocket watch with ants was not meting but the other of clocks were melting away. The ants show immortality.

In the film, another scene, a male's hand caught and was being pushed in a door. The hand waved to come out of the door, and ants in the hand began to move away from the center of the palm. Here in this part of the film, the characters looked at the ants curiously with questioning eyes. It seems to me the ants show human being's struggles about life and searching the meaning of life.

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