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'Un Chien Andalou'It's the eye of a calf, apparently, that actually gets the blade taken to it, not that this retrospective knowledge goes any way toward shaking the scene's uniquely unsettling feeling. What always got me about it wasn't just the natural eww, gross reaction to an eyeball being cut open—although, admittedly, that is a strong impulse—but rather the perverse wrongness of it all.The victim of this assault isn't screaming, or running upstairs to hide, or skinny dipping in the lake where the previous batch of sexy teens were found dead 20 years ago tonight. Instead, completely calm, she barely flinches. It throws out the rulebook.It's perhaps unexpected, then, that this most artsy video nasty has been adapted into the realm of the video game—a creative medium which, traditionally at least, thrives on logic and rules. But that's exactly the gap that The Tender Cut, a creation described as "a first-person interactive installation/exploration game" inspired by the classic scene, attempts to bridge.
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