Criminal Life

Another more sensational title of the film is called "The Criminal Life of De La Cruz", which may make people mistakenly think that it is another movie that uses crime and murder to stimulate the senses. In fact, it is a parody of the title of a popular publication, and the content of the film is quite different. Cruz, a wealthy man, was cursed by a hallucination when he was young: when he shook a music box, the tutor he hated was shot to death. When he became an adult, he encountered his childhood music box again, and the people around him were killed one by one according to his hallucination. He became a criminal who committed no crime. The film is a work in the middle period of Buñuel's creation. It is technically mature, but it has long been regarded as his second-rate work. It lacks the sharpness of the early period and the ironic spirit of the late period. However, it was later re-evaluated as one of the master's most charming masterpieces.