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I've seen this video twice--once here and previously in the email. I'm intrigued. The connection with Dalí is interesting. What I take away from both viewings are the maternal images that seem to be staged on an altar. Perhaps a reworking of Abraham's sacrifice. There's a lot here. Maybe I can use it in class.

What I admire so far about surrealism via Buñuel are his unswerving moral convictions regardless of his contradictions and often simplistic and incorrect interpretations of Freud. He is imprecise in his terminology but he is not a scholar. He is able to uphold high morals without becoming dogmatic or doctrinaire, like the Marxists he despised.