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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Three questions: what do the words in read mean?

Cert 18: certificate 18th?
cinepoem: porn?
eye-ball slicing: horror?

Context:
Details: 1928, France, Cert 18, 17 mins, Classics / Cult, Dir: Luis Bunuel
With: Luis Bunuel, Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dali
Summary: Seminal cinepoem on sex, death and decay, featuring the now infamous eye-ball slicing scene.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/78834/chien.andalou
  

Top answer

A cinepoem is a poetically-mooded film; it is not pornographic. Eyeball slicing refers specifically to a scene in which an eyeball is sliced (with a razorblade, as I recall). It has no metaphoric meaning.

— Mister Micawber

  • A cinepoem is a poetically-mooded film; it is not pornographic.
  • Eyeball slicing refers specifically to a scene in which an eyeball is sliced (with a razorblade, as I recall).
  • It has no metaphoric meaning.
  • I have never met Cert 18, but I guess that it is means 'restricted to viewers 18 years of age or over'.
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A cinepoem is a poetically-mooded film; it is not pornographic.

Eyeball slicing refers specifically to a scene in which an eyeball is sliced (with a razorblade, as I recall). It has no metaphoric meaning.

I have never met Cert 18, but I guess that it is means 'restricted to viewers 18 years of age or over'.
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