Un Chien Andalu

After viewing Un Chien Andalu, I feel that it can be represented as a love story. Maybe my mind is just really lackadaisical, but from my perspective, anything can be viewed as a love story. One can love to hate, or hate to love, either way love is incorporated.

On the subject of Un Chien Andalu, there are random events that are shown that begin to have no correlation with each other, but end with two gravestones beside each other, which represent a relationship in my mind. This fifteen and a half minute film was completely random, with no story line. The film started out with a man cutting a woman's eye with a razor. The next scene shows a man dressed in a nun's apparel riding a bicycle and collapsing. The scene after shows a woman running over to the collapsed man, and then she is shown in an apartment laying out clothes on a bed. This woman and a man are then looking out a window to see another young woman on the middle of the street with a cane moving a hand that is laying on the street. The cops come, then leave. The woman on the street is left standing there by herself, when she is hit by a car. The man with the woman in the apartment is intrigued by the fact that the woman he is with is nervous and frightened by all of these occurrences, and he starts to touch her. She allows him at first, then runs away. The man then drags over two grand pianos. ..

Okay, well I have just realized I am not explaining why I feel this movie is a love story. I will stop summarizing and explain my thoughts now.

This movie, or whatever it may be called, has absolutely no plot. However, it is still unique and interesting because of this. The scenes switch over from a man being shot in the apartment. As he falls, he falls in a new location. He is now somewhere else, and falls on the bare back of a woman kneeling down. This is extremely interesting because the change in the setting is completely random. As is another scene where the woman is running in what seems like an apartment building, and then is running on a beach. There she embraces with a man, who seems to be her lover. The movie then ends with footage of two gravestones beside one another.

In my opinion, the most important part of a movie is the ending. The ending is what brings a movie together, and proves its point. The two gravestones next to each other at the end symbolizes, from my perspective, the love two souls have for one another. Based on today's society, it is a custom to bury a person where, and next to whom they request. Due to this, I would call the random events of Un Chien Andalu a love story.