When we were brutally exposed to this movie i had a lot of mixed feelings towards it. I still do not know if i felt nauseous, if i felt confused, or if i felt distraught by what i was seeing. At first i knew that i was going to be exposed to something weird and totally surrealist (given the fact that it was directed by Luis Bunuel with scenography by Salvador Dali). It was out of my league however. The scene where the guy cuts the eyes was disgusting and creepy. The cynical part is that Santi played it twice.
At the end, however, it is made very clear that this kind of movies, this kind of art, has more purposes than simply entertaining or transmitting. This kind of works are intended to provoke rather than to please. The purpose of this movie is not showing beautiful artists in perfect sceneries, with perfect stories. This movie was about distorting the classic depiction of what we know as cinematography. And after all, who are we to judge? we have to give this type of art the benefit of the doubt, who knows, one might even get something good out of it. :P
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