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Week 8 – Waverly Takayama
Last week we watch “Exterminating Angel”. At first I was confused, why didn’t they just leave. However I think the trust that Buñuel puts into the audience to disregard that is very powerful. He allows the audience to create a reason and then watch the character fall apart— or more so fall back into animalistic […]
Week 6 – Waverly Takayama
Last week we watched “Los Olvidados“, a film that follows the lives of the fictional but very real-life based young characters. I think it is most important to point out that aspect of the film because Bunuel once again uses his creativity and artistry to shine a light on lives that have no platform to […]
Waverly Takayama – Las Hurdes Land without bread
Watching this film, we questioned what elements make up documentary. For one, we take into consideration that Buñuel did in fact get a message across and shared the very real story of the people who live there. In the other hand, we also realize how much of it was staged to produce the most dramatized […]
weekly response
In class two we were supposed to watch L’Age D’or and Un chien andalou. What is surrealism? Is it the idea of something so strange that is unreal or is it the confusion itself that makes something surreal? Buñuel is a master of his craft and from these films we can agree that his mastery […]
