Written by Bunuel and Dali after their collaboration on Un chien andalou, this film was always bound to have quite a reputation.What we have here is a strangely relevant satire on bureaucracy and capitalism. The plot is remarkably comprenhensible for the writings of two surrealists and the satirical criticism is most misanthropic, my favourite kind. Nevertheless, I think the use of surrealism is uneccessary and questionable. Yet again, I think we should accept its style and histor ical context. Thus once again, I reach no conclusion. I think I have been kidnapped by postmodernism and its promise of no absolute truth.