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Un Chien Andalou: Film Analysis
i would rather watch “Un Chien AndalouIt's” film because I think you cannot forget it once you see it. After watching the 6-minute clip from the film, I think it will be weirder and more interesting films that you'll ever run across. It is a film that looks like shock or madness. Likewise, it’s a strange film that cannot be known for its beginnings or timings. Even the references to the times seem like an unfamiliar heresy sweeping an asymmetrical and not at all simple dream. A group of scattered ideas make incoherent but painful scenes in the soul. It is the revolution on everything .. And precisely through the extraordinary and incomprehensible ways .. Others see it as an initial demonstration of the ideal principles of surrealism in a new

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