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Jorge Chavez Humanities 17 Professor Liebner What is real? How do we know, what is real? These are questions that have plagued man for centuries, philosophers haves written volumes and volumes of books, debated and spent lifetimes trying to find the answer. What is real? well I guess the very fact that I think is real, but what about things we cannot explain? What about surreal? What is surrealism? Perhaps the easiest answer is that that is not real. But, obviously we can go in circles with this even now I am just a bit confused. When I think about the films we watched and reviewed and discussed, I could not help but think that all of these films have some of element of surrealism. I took the idea of surrealism as a fantasy representation of life. As we had discussed earlier that there is a sort of “fable” element but without the “and they lived happily ever after…” Un Chien Andalou Written by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali and directed by Buneul, this very short film takes the viewer into this world full of surrealism. Whether it is the ants crawling from the palm to the dead animal by the piano, this film is endowed with the element of nonsense. Obviously the fable sense plays a big part because no where in this film is there any perception of normalcy. I would think the filmmakers had an ingenious idea and they presented it in the most profound way. Needless to say this did not happen instead we had a film in which we are left with the questions of what does this mean?
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