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Weekly Response 4 — Saiss Cruz
What can be said about Buñuel’s “The Young One” that isn’t spotlighted in America’s jaded history with race and economics, for one – it’s hard not to think that the construction of this film doesn’t come from Buñuel’s first-hand witness of the identity politics in America, being that he for one fell from grace for […]
Weekly Response 4- Grace Tapia
Bunuel’s film The Young One was admittedly a shocking addition to the repertoire of Buñuel for me, based on my previous perceptions of him as a filmmaker and person. The idea of him confronting race relations is not one that I had considered based on the work of his I’ve seen so far. Perhaps this […]
Weekly Response #4 – Lourdes Zamora
Buñuel’s 1960 film The Young One left a greater impression on me than I realized. Packed with symbolism, I was particularly struck by the animal symbolism and was impressed at how a movie could have such a disappointing conclusion in which everyone and no one is satisfied in the end. For example, one of the […]
Weekly Response #4-Saree Griffin
Luis Buñuel’s 1960 film The Young One can be seen as a critique of America and its’ anti-communist movement. Spanning from the late 1940s to the 1950s the McCarthyist movement (an intense anti-communism suspicion and repression movement) was quite prevalent in the United States. It’s named after Senator Joseph McCarthy, who led a campaign accusing […]
Week 4 The Young One
In watching Buñuel’s film The Young One I was most interested in the role nature plays and the parallels of the natural landscape alongside the relational dynamics of the main characters- the predator and the prey. The story takes place on a remote island cut off from the outside world though tensions around power and […]
Week 4 – Rio Takahashi
It is astounding to me how Bunuel was capable of capturing aspects of American society and oppression in The Young One with his limited experience in the country. Bunuel accurately portrays many corrupt systems within U.S. society, especially those he was exposed to during his time in Hollywood, through the handful of characters in The […]
Weekly Response #4- Maribel Gomez
Buñuel’s film, The Young One, examines the topic of persecution and morality through racial prejudice against a man of color wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting a white woman. While pedophilia is display between a white man and young girl who inhabit on a remote island. These characters cross paths as the man of color, Traver, […]
Week 4 — Mariah Smith
The Young One (1960) Dir. Luis Buñuel: Intersections of Race and Gender After watching Luis Buñuel’s 1960 film, The Young One, I was left feeling unsettled and unresolved by the ending. However, the film effectively captured the dark underbelly of America’s long-standing history with racism, sexual exploitation, and general moral hypocrisy. In brief, the film […]
Week 4 — Xavier Borrero
For this week’s class we screened La Joven and discussed the journey of Bunuel moving fromcity to city due to complications within the film industry. Prior to screening the film we discussed Bunuel’sfinancial situation as he was bankrupted in 1938, leading to Bunuel travelling by transatlantic ship to NYC.Within his time in NYC, Bunuel would […]
Weekly Response #4
Buñuel’s film The Young One (1960) contains themes that explore different aspects of American life at the time. The film has been criticized for its heavy appropriation, though it is one of Buñuel’s most looked-over, especially in regard to race, religion and sexuality. The character Traver is discriminated against and mistreated because of his race, […]
