243:. Buñuel's film was written with his then-friend Salvador DalĂ, and presented a series of tenuously related scenes. Messan plays an androgynous young woman, with bobbed hair and dressed in rather masculine attire. She pokes at a severed human hand with her cane while surrounded by a large crowd held back by policemen. The crowd clears when the policeman places the hand in a striped box and gives it to the young woman. The androgynous young woman contemplates something happily while standing in the middle of the now busy street clutching the box. She is then run over by a car and a few bystanders gather around her. A young man seems to take
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