tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231356.post112118942616457599..comments2023-10-03T07:44:14.914-04:00Comments on Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir)Mark Pfeifferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098023129216356791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231356.post-31204402233883421172008-05-10T17:24:00.000-04:002008-05-10T17:24:00.000-04:00good review. however i think another important asp...good review. however i think another important aspect of buñuels use of two different actresses is to emphasize the fact that the protagonist's desire is purely physical; as you correctly write, he doesn't care about conchitas personality, intellectual potential or obviously not even the look of her face. his interest is entirely pussy-centered - a quite diffuse and invicible object indeed. it surely isn't any incident that her (their?) name is "conchita", which in spanish means "small mussel".<BR/><BR/>this was a quite interesting phenomenon for myself, since i didn't realize that it was two different persons until my friend (who had seen it before) told me. i guess the object of my desire is quite obscure too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231356.post-1164686501522917532006-11-27T23:01:00.000-05:002006-11-27T23:01:00.000-05:00Mark, this is by far the BEST review I have seen o...Mark, this is by far the BEST review I have seen on this film - which has for years baffled myself and friends. Congratulations! You really make sense of it and boil it down to the core.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com