Viridiana is easily Bunuel’s most concrete film and perhaps, his most direct and scathing work. He attacks organized religion and poverty in an unsettling way but somehow, the various details ring true for the most part (at least culling from my own experiences); watching this made me remember why I no longer hand out money to the poor. In retrospect, it’s quite depressing knowing that a good portion of this world operates in the manner it does here but the idealist in me would like to hope that people are capable of expressing the gratitude and respect so absent in this film.