. . . as time goes by, Luis Buñuel’s image has softened; people have begun to see him as a mythological, museum-bound figure. Before, when one of his films came out, crowds would tear up the theater; liberal politicians would censor his works or demand that he be expelled from the country he was living in. That’s what his films and writings were all about. To provoke, to shock, to destroy a society that he found corrupt and idiotic, to ridicule a religion that had oppressed millions of people, and continues to do so. “The search for Truth is wonderful. Beware of the person who then claims to have found that Truth.”