INCEPTION - BEFORE IT WAS COOL

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE

Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie

(1972)

Director: Louis Buñuel

This surrealist social satire focuses both on its content as well as its form. 

The movie mocks the social habits of the bourgeoisie. Their special way of sipping martini and their false social graces. It presents us with a funny scene where a fancy coffee place runs out of coffee, tea and milk, and doesn't serve alcohol.

It displays the hypocrisy of the high society which deals enormous amounts of cocaine but abhors the sight of marijuana.

They consider themselves the ones with proper social graces while some of them have love affairs with another person from their group.

The movie doesn't stop there. It mocks the church, the police, the military, the diplomacy...

All of these contents are presented in an oneiric atmosphere. Dreams intertwined with more dreams all of which make the protagonists uncomfortable and all connected with the scene of the group walking in the middle of nowhere probably heading nowhere.