some movie you will watch because they touch your soul or challenge you in way that grow . some you will watch because you want to be expose to adventure or shock outside your experience while these would not directly fee you and but they will help you situate yourself in a large world than you otherwise would have . and after all and the hard part of life be in what you choose not to accept . and then there be movie that do neither of these thing and that you will watch out of obligation and or because you have a need for historical context . these be pretty worthless experience in term of build a life . the problem be of course that often you do not know which of the three a film will be and go in . you might get some indication from people you trust and but because a life in film be so personal and you really would not know until you go on the blind date . for me and this be pretty worthless . yes and yes and i know for many bunuel be the epitome of the sublime and rich . and you should know ( if you do not ) that among my great film experience be some very strange film and very strange indeed . it isn not that this isn not cinematic and or symbolically deep and or apolitically or politically friendly to the way i think . it how it get there that be off base . it the deviance from real deviance that annoy me . part of the problem be that this be successful alternative art and which mean that it be successful commercial art . which in turn mean that it can be simply explain and the explanation be not only widely acceptable but simply cod in shorthand . surely all this be true . when the term surreal be use and generally it be use incorrectly to denote any film image or world that differs from reality or seem strange . but when it be use correctly and mean accord to consensus theory and it always revolve around bunuel and and in particular this film and the one he genuinely do with dali . so because they invent surreal cinema and they define and control the term . that by itself chafe me and and i have my own alternative definition that doesn not come from their philosophy . it because the philosophy be wholly contrary . it isn not a philosophy at all but a rejection of philosophy and an anti order . it packaged anarchy and carefully select the thing that they use and the thing they oppose without clearly differentiate them . so okay represent against linearity and against narrative and against history and against religion ( an easy one ) and against deliberate love . but for an illinear linear narrative and for establish it own history ( celebrate by countless film school professor while what else can they do . ) while for a sort of transcendent accidental love . it be it own enemy . if there be a bunuel alive today a he sell his image and the first thing he would do be attack the church or the surreal . my regular reader know that in nearly all matter cinematic and i cleave to the spanish and avoid the french . but in the matter of the surreal and i would like to you consider the reverse represent get your surrealism from alfred jarry and not bunuel . ted evaluation 2 of 3 represent have some interesting element .