"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" -Dr. Johnson
19.3.02
Ah, Luis Bunuel, what can't he do? Luis Bunuel, for those of you not in the know, was a spanish surrealist director. Thats right, surrealism in movies. He worked with Salvador DalĂ on his first two movies, Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. While yes, those are both French titles the movies are redolent with the Spanish influences of their Spanish creators. The essence of the more bizarre images, such as those of an eye being slit with a razor or a man wiping his mouth completely off his face is that the mind can not rationalize such images, but the eyes can not lie, so the brain has to expand, evolve and maybe explode to compensate for the images. The object of surrealism is to make obvious the doings of the sub-conscious, to create an upheaval in society that stops people from being fake and living like Ivan Ilyich. Surrealism is a catalyst for societal evolution.
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