Un chien Andalou

American film critic Roger Ebert called Un chien andalou ''the most famous short film ever made, and anyone halfway interested in the cinema sees it sooner or later, usually several times”. Critics have suggested that Un chien andalou can be understood as a typically Buñuelian anti-bourgeois, anticlerical piece. The man dragging a piano, donkey and priests has been interpreted as an allegory of man's progress towards his goal being hindered by the baggage of society's conventions that he is forced to bear. Likewise, the image of an eyeball being sliced by a razor can be understood as Buñuel “attacking” the film's viewers. Federico García Lorca viewed this film as a personal attack on him. In spite of these varying interpretations, Buñuel makes clear through his writings, that between Dali and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script was that “no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted.”