Score: 5/10

I think the most memorable scene was the scene where the aggressive man was held back by the two pianos, in which two decaying donkeys were placed on.

This is down to the absurdity and shock value of the scene, where this is left complete unexplained and random.

I’d give this a 7/10

I enjoyed the creativity and multitude of absurd scenes that linked together through this one woman. However I feel like it was trying to tell a story which made me want to understand what was happening, e.g the passing of time, and this left me more confused, and slightly frustrated at times, however as a whole it was enjoyable.

A scene that stood out for me was the man pulling the men + piano + cows. Despite the disturbing imagery, it was quite humorous to see just how much this one man was pulling.

I would give this film a 4/10, I felt they went to far with the surrealism to the point where the movie made no sense and was needlessly vulgar, a memorable scene to me was the man with the bugs coming out of his hands as it recurred throughout the movie and was treated with a sense of shock.

Rating – 7/10

A memorable scene in the film for me was the insects bursting out the man’s hand, due to the unsettling and disturbing nature of the visuals that create a sense of fear and disgust.

Explain how the specific socio-historical contexts (first half of the 20th century) may have influenced the work of the early surrealist filmmakers – Following the first world war, artists and filmmakers adopted the surrealism movement to express their freedom from oppressors and used their work to imitate that of the unconscious mind and dreams. Early surrealist directors like Dali and Bunuel may have used imagery that signifies fear to remind audiences what kind of world they were leaving in just a few years prior, where they felt those emotions everyday.

Overall I’m giving the film a 7/10. I thought that the film had good pacing depicting violent imagery and unexplainable events. It offered many iconic scenes and was a masterpiece for its time.

An iconic scene for me is the eyeball scene due to the unfiltered horror elements projected on screen.

8/10 –

For me my memorable scene is this horrific image of an eyeball slit in the very beginning of the film. With this gory image at the very beginning it creates a fear as to what comes next throughout the film and puts the viewer on edge, and state of confusion to creepily allusive imagery, made in a surrealist structure.