Bunuel did not like the conclusion ;the production probably forced his hand.These people in daylight again praising God can be nothing more than a farce when you know Bunuel's other works.It's impossible to think the great director filmed this sequence without irony.
The first scene is very violent:in the reformatory,Susana is thrown into a dungeon full of rats,bats and scorpions .So she prays the Lord (of the jails) and a miracle happens: no more bars!People who have never seen a Bunuel work might think this is really a divine intervention.In Bunuel's canon,it can only be the devil's although,he did not probably believe in Satan either.
Dona Carmen predates Viridiana's character(1961).Viridiana would take in all the beggars around at great cost.Carmen is another kind of Saint (in the bunuelesque sense of the term: she is probably frigid and her husband is a frustrated man ; see how she's shocked when he tries to take her in his hands)and she is no match for the perverse sensual Susana,who,unlike her name sake in the Bible,is not exactly chaste.We do not know what Susana's motives are: does she want to seduce all the males around only as a revenge,because she probably got a raw deal and she got a score to settle with "them" ? does she want to take Carmen's place?Is she simply a teaser ? There's a sultry atmosphere and Rosita Quintana is sensuality in the flesh.She is akin to Djinn (Simone Signoret) in "La Mort En Ce Jardin" .
The first scene is very violent:in the reformatory,Susana is thrown into a dungeon full of rats,bats and scorpions .So she prays the Lord (of the jails) and a miracle happens: no more bars!People who have never seen a Bunuel work might think this is really a divine intervention.In Bunuel's canon,it can only be the devil's although,he did not probably believe in Satan either.
Dona Carmen predates Viridiana's character(1961).Viridiana would take in all the beggars around at great cost.Carmen is another kind of Saint (in the bunuelesque sense of the term: she is probably frigid and her husband is a frustrated man ; see how she's shocked when he tries to take her in his hands)and she is no match for the perverse sensual Susana,who,unlike her name sake in the Bible,is not exactly chaste.We do not know what Susana's motives are: does she want to seduce all the males around only as a revenge,because she probably got a raw deal and she got a score to settle with "them" ? does she want to take Carmen's place?Is she simply a teaser ? There's a sultry atmosphere and Rosita Quintana is sensuality in the flesh.She is akin to Djinn (Simone Signoret) in "La Mort En Ce Jardin" .