Post 9

Un Chien Andalou is a film that leaves the viewer confused as to what has taken place. The film offers no story line with disconnected scenes that in no way relate to one another. The meaning is ambiguous leaving the interpretation of the film up to the viewer. The intention of this film seems to shock and confuse people, much like surrealist art. The film made by two surrealists Dali and Brunel captures the essence of the movement in which in represents. It relates to Freud's analysis in his work "On Dreams". Freud believes that we repress things in our minds so as not to revuls ourselves which is present in the obscurity of dream images. When we sleep our unconscious is able to revel itself to us and we are able to see what we are repressing. These thoughts come to us in obscure images so as not to induce repulsion at what are true thoughts are.  It is up to us to interpret these images and gain meaning out of them.

The film acts as a type of dream that we are meant to interpret through the obscure images that are being presented before us. The film shows images that in no way relate to one another and do not correspond with the previous image or scene much like dreams. In this way we are meant to glean our own meaning from the film and figure out what each of these images mean to us.