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Movies We Have Enjoyed Seeing
The Exterminating Angel Reviewed by Véronique Schlumberger from France Type: drama/comedy Country/Date: Mexico/1962 (black and white) A party is organized in a high class society house. Many smart people are drinking and eating. It's getting late, but nobody is leaving. Even though the door is open, people seem to be locked in the house. They can't leave either the day after or on the following days. Outside, an acquaintance, who realizes that these people can't move, organizes help for food. Problems arise and a suicide occurs. Eventually, the police make them get out by force. In order to celebrate their liberation, all these people gather in the cathedral to perform a Te Deum mass. At the end of the mass, while the organ is playing, the doors are being opening, but.... In
this movie, Luis Buñuel stigmatizes in a
surrealist manner this strange force which
paralyzes people in a kind of apathy in certain
circumstances. By painting the intellectual
society, he emphasizes an attitude very common in
emergency situations where nobody can help victims
because they are waiting for other bystanders'
reactions. |
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