“…Since we are all apt to believe
in the reality of our fantasies, we end up transforming our lies into truths.”
– (My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel)
A mid age stranger sharing
objectionable photos with little girls in a park…a young man wishing to see her
aged aunt naked… a group of priests sharing wine, card game with a pretty young dame... cops training class room session frequently interrupted by
immediate outings for one or another emergency…a missing school girl’s search
in her full presence…a man randomly aiming and killing pedestrians in all possible directions with a
sniper gun on top of a skyscraper…a
commissioner of police caught for meeting her dead sister at mausoleum… an
unforgettable dinner table scene where men sitting on toilet tubs sharing their
routine chat about art, city and concerning big issues of world at general and
privately eat and drink in a small chamber!!! Ah…I can’t get over this absolutely unexpected absurd mind-blowing affair!
This is an unusual trip for me as
well for anybody who’s watching it for the first time to get you hooked into
the unpredictable, bizarre and wicked sense of humor created by the most unconventional and stimulating modern artist of last century named Luis Bunuel. The film is Master provocateur’s
boisterous laughter pointed on the universal bourgeoisie face. Bunuel used his
influence of Goya’s famous painting ‘The Executions of the Third of May’ as
prelude of this film. That 18th century artist in his series of
drawings ruthlessly exposed the deceit and hypocrisy of society; no wonder why
the artistic expressions find it resonance even centuries later in a modern
cinematic medium where two radical geniuses shared same echo.
As Bunuel got older his sense of humor grew stronger and more stimulating affair to witness and
the man brilliantly played here with fragmentary absurd anecdotes of several
characters that frequently punctured the narrative playing the gallery. It consists of stereotype characters belong to different situations
and locations that brought them closer, shocks us and departs to led us to
introduce several others in the same league. Throughout the film it constantly pokes
fun and making statement at hidden hypocrisy of religion, society, human morality
and mannerism showing us our mirror reflections of deceptive dark façade driven
by illogical human desire and behavior-The Freudian id, ego and super-ego
triangle.
So far this is one of the best
Bunuel I’ve ever seen.
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