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Surrealism How It Impacted The Future Of Digital Visual Effects

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Surrealism: How It Impacted the Future of Digital Visual Effects

Dawson Carpenter

20th-century Art
Professor Field
March 10, 2018 For decades, cinema has continued to portray an impactful role on the world for it allows people to express themselves as well as question what they see as reality. Cinema is powerful for it can be categorized in a myriad of genres and that many people can happen to find enjoyment in, for it should be well-aware that not everyone has the same interest towards a particular genre, compared to one person’s thoughts. Despite its various meanings and, cinema has always been an experience for people are given the ability to project their consciousness into a ultimately limitless world in …show more content…

Surrealism in film will soon revolutionize the theme of cinema by being …show more content…

The black-and-white short film, directed by Luis Buñuel (in collaboration with Salvador Dalí), was well received by critics for it focused on continuing the approach of Surrealism by destabilizing bourgeois society and give vent to repressed and deep thoughts that resides in a person’s psyche. For instance, the film is truly bold and impactful to being a theme of irrationality when it focuses in on clear shots, such as a razor slices a woman's eyeball, grand pianos with dead cattle are dragged across a bourgeois sitting room, or even the scene when ants scurry in and out of a hole in a man's hand; these particular scenes are excellent examples of shock art for they make an audience feel extremely disturbed when viewing (this was shown in and received this way when viewed in class), yet it’s shot in a way to put the viewer deep in thought to record what all happened. To elaborate how the film was directed and how subconsciously intricate and liberating it was (particularly to himself), Buñuel

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