Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is one of the few films that is granted the tit... more Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is one of the few films that is granted the title of being a wholly surrealist film. Made as a mockery of the aestheticism predecessors used when creating a surrealist piece of film (Thiher, 1977, pg. 39), Un Chien Andalou aims to shun the expectations placed on cinematic art in twentieth century France, and invites the viewer to free themselves from societal norms and experience an unconscious world where rules are merely a suggestion. Quite literally, Buñuel tells the viewer to ‘see with another eye’ when he opens the film with him slashing the eyeball of a woman (Buñuel, 1929, 1:35-1:44), and thrusts the viewer into a dreamscape made to shock the sensibilities of bourgeoisie life.
This sense of absolute dream-made liberation is what Buñuel and Dalí draw on for their inspiration of the film and ask the viewer to shed their preconceived notions of morally acceptable behavior. The film is filled with the idea of lusting after those who you cannot have because of the way society expects young people to conduct themselves sexually. However, in this paper, I will argue that the sexual liberation that Dalí and Buñuel present is one born out of the sexist values of their time and that the film is their ode to their own fear of women.
After the 2016 election, the United States became the main story on a global stage due to immigra... more After the 2016 election, the United States became the main story on a global stage due to immigration policies, targeting the U.S.-Mexico border, that had been enacted and had severe consequences on the mental health of the migrants subjected to them. The present paper will examine the short-term and long-term effects on the mental health of migrants, with a particular focus on children, and gives four recommendations on how to combat this issue: demilitarize the border, decriminalize illegal border crossings, reverse Trump-era policies, and protect immigration programs.
Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is one of the few films that is granted the tit... more Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí is one of the few films that is granted the title of being a wholly surrealist film. Made as a mockery of the aestheticism predecessors used when creating a surrealist piece of film (Thiher, 1977, pg. 39), Un Chien Andalou aims to shun the expectations placed on cinematic art in twentieth century France, and invites the viewer to free themselves from societal norms and experience an unconscious world where rules are merely a suggestion. Quite literally, Buñuel tells the viewer to ‘see with another eye’ when he opens the film with him slashing the eyeball of a woman (Buñuel, 1929, 1:35-1:44), and thrusts the viewer into a dreamscape made to shock the sensibilities of bourgeoisie life.
This sense of absolute dream-made liberation is what Buñuel and Dalí draw on for their inspiration of the film and ask the viewer to shed their preconceived notions of morally acceptable behavior. The film is filled with the idea of lusting after those who you cannot have because of the way society expects young people to conduct themselves sexually. However, in this paper, I will argue that the sexual liberation that Dalí and Buñuel present is one born out of the sexist values of their time and that the film is their ode to their own fear of women.
After the 2016 election, the United States became the main story on a global stage due to immigra... more After the 2016 election, the United States became the main story on a global stage due to immigration policies, targeting the U.S.-Mexico border, that had been enacted and had severe consequences on the mental health of the migrants subjected to them. The present paper will examine the short-term and long-term effects on the mental health of migrants, with a particular focus on children, and gives four recommendations on how to combat this issue: demilitarize the border, decriminalize illegal border crossings, reverse Trump-era policies, and protect immigration programs.
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This sense of absolute dream-made liberation is what Buñuel and Dalí draw on for their inspiration of the film and ask the viewer to shed their preconceived notions of morally acceptable behavior. The film is filled with the idea of lusting after those who you cannot have because of the way society expects young people to conduct themselves sexually. However, in this paper, I will argue that the sexual liberation that Dalí and Buñuel present is one born out of the sexist values of their time and that the film is their ode to their own fear of women.
This sense of absolute dream-made liberation is what Buñuel and Dalí draw on for their inspiration of the film and ask the viewer to shed their preconceived notions of morally acceptable behavior. The film is filled with the idea of lusting after those who you cannot have because of the way society expects young people to conduct themselves sexually. However, in this paper, I will argue that the sexual liberation that Dalí and Buñuel present is one born out of the sexist values of their time and that the film is their ode to their own fear of women.