In class we looked at a number of examples of films that utilized the association of images which contributed to their narratives. Movement became a focal point in analysis as the films we viewed experimented with the capture of movement, at first experimentally and then more artistically. It became clear that scientific film held influence over the films that came after as we viewed captured movement from the view of a microscope. Movement grew more significant in narratives for continuity and perspective, and we see this in the film Andalusian Dog by Buñuel and Dalí. This is a film where dreams are the genesis. They incorporate countless aspects of surrealism in the way they portray the Freudian themes present in the narrative which includes figures of desire, a focal point of the film. The visuals that we see and that the filmmakers associate each other contribute to the tones of passion and violence. We see the animalistic nature that comes about as a result of sexual desire and the pursuit of a vulnerable figure, that being the woman. The film is definitely one that is provocative and of fetishistic nature as Buñuel puts surrealism at the forefront of it and uses it to steer the audiences’ perspective. We see the same themes in Buñuel’s film L’Age d’Or where we have main characters who are also driven by their sexual desires, and get visuals of associated images that further that theme. Buñuel very bluntly and very prominently enforces surrealism as a movement.
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