![]() ![]() ![]() “….There’s no doubt that surrealism was a cultural and artistic success but these were precisely the areas of least interest to the surrealists. The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself. ” Scandal was a potent agent of revelation, capable of exposing such social crimes as the exploitation of one man by another, colonialist imperialism, religious tyranny- in sum, all the secret and odious underpinnings of a system that had to be destroyed. Their principle weapon wasn’t guns, of course it was scandal. “All of us were supporters of a certain concept of revolution, and although the surrealists didn’t consider themselves terrorists, they were constantly fighting a society they despised. All you’ll have left is a dampness on your fingers.” You try to grab hold of it, but it will always slip away. “Your freedom is only a phantom that travels the world in a cloak of fog. Surrealism was an important part of his life. ![]() He was born in Spain but he made most of his films in Mexico and France. ![]() I re-read it last year.īunuel’s a great filmaker. The translation is copyrighted 1983 (the year Bunuel died). These are a few sections from My Last Sigh (The Autobiography of Luis Bunuel). ![]()
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