Un Chien Andalou Analysis

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The very first scene in ‘Un Chien Andalou’ made me cringe when the man slit the woman's eyeball. Just the start of the move alone gave me the feeling that I would be watching a horror film. But as the rest of the film continued I started to feel that the movie may be categorized under a mystery or as a sci-fi.

Though Un Chien Andalou wasn't one of my favorite films since it was quite hard for me to follow the story. From my understanding the movie was supposed to portray that the protagonist was having psychopathic dreams of a false reality or day dreaming of killing people since throughout the whole film there were signs that death is near. According to the French, seeing the ants come out of the man's hands is a sign that someone is itching

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