![]() Silas wears a sort of metal belt clamped around his thigh, a chain-link-ish thing with sharp hooks in it to mortify his own flesh. It’s in the scene where we get our first good look at the nutbag Silas, the albino monk (played by Paul Bettany with big bags under his eyes). If I ever find a doctor like the one in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the horse-head memory and the calf-eye memory are the first memories I’m getting wiped out. These stories did not comfort or inoculate me, the way my Karo-syrup mantra always does. I also heard that the act of slicing it made Buñuel feel physically nauseated. Years later, I read accounts saying it was actually a dead calf’s eye they used. The hottest Finnish sauna will never sweat that wretched image out of my mind. Once I heedlessly watched what they banned, it was too late. This short was banned in Finland on its release. Woefully huge mistake to have watched it. But in motion, up on a big screen? Oh, wow. I’d seen a still photograph of the super-sickening moment years before, and it looked so unreal it never bothered me. It still makes my palms sweat a little to think about it.) Even worse? In college, I watched a razor blade slicing what appeared to be a human eyeball as if it were a yolky egg in the renowned 1929 surrealist short Un Chien Andalou (directed by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel). I looked right into the decapitated creature’s blank eyes just as the movie producer’s screams really let rip on the soundtrack - or so I recall it - and it completely flipped me out. Numero uno: that bloody horse head in the bed in The Godfather. What pushed my buttons and didn’t stop pushing them? Stuff involving injured animals, for some reason.
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