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Re-enact Un Chien Andalou’s most notorious scene and feel weird about it afterwards
The Tender Cut is a game that asks a question that cannot be answered: “What the heck is going on in this guy’s head?” The guy has a name. It’s Luis Bunuel, one of the pioneers in surrealist cinema. His first film, 1929’s Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), is infamous for its shocking opener of a woman getting her eye sliced in half with a razor blade. There’s an extreme close-up just when you think the camera is about to cut away, the vitreous humor oozing out from her expressionless face, and into your nightmares. It’s gross and unexpected.…