spoilersi really wish i hadn not know the title of the movie before see it for the first time . the plot be an examination of a walk appetite try to fulfill itself by subjugate and control what it want . buñuel bring this to life with fernando rey play an old man who have every need and luxury cover and but care nothing for it if he can not have an enigmatic young woman name conchita . play alternately by an austere beauty and carole bouquet and and an impish vixen and angela molina and conchita literally morph away from him every time rey character come close to have sex with her . until the very end and she confound and frustrate him because she be what he can never have . this be one of those movie that irritate people for several reason . a a number of other review point out and rey mathieu and conchita be pretty repugnant people . simply put and the kind of person that expect movie to provide character who be morally good people to identify with will be a disappointed with obscure object a with any altman or kubrick film . it isn not that kind of movie . the theme be a dark examination of desire and asking be it inseparable from a lust for control . mathieu spend most of the movie try to buy conchita . initially and he try to coax her with food like an animal . when he learn she a virgin and he try to buy her off her own mother in a weirdly inverted dowry scene . once he feel he get exclusive right to her in his country house and he immediately try to set her up in his late wife room a though she a new acquisition to replace an old spot leave empty . and finally and in the seville scene where we see conchita behind bar several time and he try to set her up a his private stripper or whore . conchita feint and rebuff him at every turn and always string him along with a promise to love him on a condition he will never be able to meet . namely and to respect her freedom a a person . but she be the ` object in the title and the story be mostly retell by mathieu himself and so it almost impossible for conchita to be a human even to the audience . what anyone can make out by the end be that conchita be not only come out ahead in her scam game with mathieu and but that she be lock into a pattern of sadistic control herself . this quest lead and inevitably and to a kind of consummation where mathieu beat the snot out of conchita . buñuel film the blow carefully and the scene be uncomfortably long . be this the control that mathieu bought . a he relate the scene to the people in the train car ( a wonderful device for the retelling of an amoral story ) he grin ecstatically a he relate how richly she deserve his attack . then and just like every other time he felt like he be get somewhere with conchita and she turn the table on him and he find himself pursue her . it seem pretty obvious that violence will continue to escalate and the stake will be high the next time conchita wind mathieu up . but before we have to see this and buñuel blow them up in a terrorist attack . terror and crime exist a background noise during the whole movie . sometimes seem to reflect the mathieu or conchita plot in news report and it reinforce the theme of people get what they desire through violence . a terrorist bomb kill indiscriminately to achieve some desired end ( and buñuel pepper the film with reference to ever more absurd terror group that could have no rational interest in common ) . a mugger by necessity take what he want from stranger . the plot of the movie be almost a literal redistribution of mathieu abundant wealth to the squalid paris suburb that conchita live in and the young drifter she travel with through her elaborate scheme . and the ultimate act of terror be mathieu finally get his hand on the protean woman he be chase and beat her into submission . well and that the penultimate act anyway before they too be consume in some other person desire for something that probably have nothing to do with them . it a masterpiece . a questionable morally in it intelligent use of stereotype a vertigo .