Social Distance and Desire: Isolation and Entrapment in the Films of Luis Buñuel

Kirsten Strom
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Abstract: In discussions of pre-COVID films seeming to anticipate the anxieties of quarantine, Luis Buñuel's Exterminating Angel is a frequent point of reference. The plight of characters desperately unable to break free of a home has obvious parallels, but related themes of isolation and entrapment play themselves out in varied ways across the filmmaker's fifty-year oeuvre. This article explores these themes in three of Buñuel's Mexican films, comparing the scenario of The Exterminating Angel to those of the lesser-known films, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1952) and Simon of the Desert (1965). Though they are stylistically diverse, the three films also share the incorporation of surrealist strategies, enabling them to provide a persuasively surrealist take on situations of social distance and desire.
社会距离与欲望:路易斯-布努埃尔电影中的隔离与禁锢
摘要:在讨论似乎预示着隔离焦虑的前 COVID 电影时,路易斯-布努埃尔(Luis Buñuel)的《灭罪天使》(Exterminating Angel)是一个常见的参考点。片中人物无法摆脱家庭束缚的困境与该片有着明显的相似之处,但在布努埃尔长达五十年的电影生涯中,隔离和禁锢的相关主题也以不同的方式得到了体现。本文探讨了布努埃尔三部墨西哥电影中的这些主题,将《灭绝天使》中的情节与《鲁滨逊漂流记》(1952 年)和《沙漠中的西蒙》(1965 年)中鲜为人知的情节进行了比较。这三部影片虽然风格迥异,但都采用了超现实主义的策略,从而以令人信服的超现实主义手法表现了社会距离和欲望的状况。
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