Why do the servants leave? And why does the butler stay? Why don't the guests leave?
What role do fragments and repetition (of dialogue, actions, etc.) play in the film?
Which dialogues reveal the bourgeois dinner guests' insensitivity to the poor? What attitudes by Buñuel toward various forms of religion are revealed through the dialogues? What do the characters' actions suggest about their attitudes toward love? fidelity? social appearances? solidarity?
Is Beatriz and Eduardo's relationship a healthy passionate love?
Symbolism. How do you interpret the woman's dream about the detached hand? How do you interpret the leitmotif of hair and shaving? What is the significance of the butler's penchant for balls of paper soaked in water? What do the characters' visions inside the cupboard/lavatory suggest? What is the function of the bear and the sheep?
How does the use of the camera reinforce the sense of claustrophobia?
What finally sets the characters free from the house?
Do you think they will be able to leave the church at the end? Is it significant that this scene occurs right after the celebration of the Te Deum?
How seriously are we to take one character's statement: "In the end, nothing explains anything"?