The main characters who are invited to a dinner party are completely unprepared due to conflicting appointment times at a friend’s house, or the restaurant they chose as the next best option has a dead body right next to it, so they lose their appetite. At another appointment that we visited the next time, the meal did not go ahead due to mutual conflict, and just as we were about to eat, various uninvited guests interrupted the dinner. The movie ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’ was a satirical comedy full of such bizarre situations. Director Luis Buñuel was born in Spain, but settled in Mexico where he spent his days. The movie ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’ was also a surrealist film that crossed between dreams and reality, imagination and reality, and reminiscence and reality, as was characteristic of its director, Luis Buñuel.
In addition, it was a film that satirized the hypocrisy and pretentiousness of the bourgeoisie, which the director always talks about, and criticized their cheap desires.
The eating (appetite) and sleeping (sexual desires) shown in the movie can be seen as the greed of the bourgeoisie, but their desires are completely trampled and ignored by the director. Nevertheless, the bourgeois feels immoral lust even for his friend’s wife and his own enemy, and even in the critical situation of his death, he persistently feels an uncontrollable base appetite. If you look at it without thinking, you can say ‘what on earth is this?’ It may be a movie with that thought in mind, but if you watch it while carefully considering its intention, I think it is a very fun movie to watch.