Last Supper
Why is the blind man the one to sit in the place of Jesus when the last supper painting is portrayed?
shareWell, it's open to interpretation.
Possibly to imply the rabble (the church) are being lead by blind hopes, or by blind ideas.
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That scene is absolutely BRILLIANT. And I don't know the real meaning of the blind mand as Jesus, but anyway there's a proverb in Spain its says "En el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey" (In the land of blinds the one-eyed is the king) So... this Jesus is blind and one-eyed, he's less than a citizen (blind). I think the intention is to demystify Jesus and religion, and put the beggars at the same level as Jesus and apostles. It's a desecration. I love it.
shareJust out of interest, why do people think during the Angeles scene - where they're saying the Hail Mary in the field - that it cuts to people working i.e chopping wood and all that.
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My first instinct on that "Angels" scene with the prayer on the field and with the shots of instruments, wood, plaster, etc....a contrast between religious piety and asceticism and sexuality. I found the building materials and the rhythmic shots Bunuel presented them with to be very sexually suggestive.
But as with Bunuel, it is all open to interpretation, and I believe that was Don Luis' intent!
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i thought the scene of the praying in the fields intercut with the shots of the workers brilliantly drew parallels between the laborious physical work and the robotic recitation of the prayers that were empty to everyone besides viridiana.
shareWhile some pray, others actually do something. That's about it.
Language! The thing that means stuff.
Maybe. Or about the harmony between work and prayer. Or about how work and prayer complete mutually. Or about how work and prayer both are the facets of the same human existence. Or about Viridiana's spiritual isolation. Or about showing the depth and complexity of beggars' personalities.
That's Bunuel.
Listen to your enemy, for God is talking
Yes absolutely, that was according to me one of the most easy-to-comprehend scenes in the whole movie.
It was like 'don't disturb them, they are working.' Probably that's the reason the shot was cut from one-to-another repeatedly...
the Angeles scene - where they're saying the Hail Mary in the field - that it cuts to people working i.e chopping woodTo me it seemed that the workers were more part of nature and living than the prayer group. The one thing I take from the film is the idea that 'being alone' and serving God is outside of life and unnatural for people.
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About the last supper scene, it's also amusing how the "photo" was taken. I mean with the "camera that father gave her".
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