I'm not enitely sure I understood the ending of this film. Obviously, the grandmother died, and the boy is all alone again, but after he lays in bed and turns over, what exactly was that last shot? I couldn't quite figure it out.
Any help I will welcome.
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It's like death eatin' a cracker.
I always thought that something grabbed him from under the bed. Lynch plays on my deep rooted fears from childhood of "the monster under the bed." Actually everytime I watch this I get a different interpretation, depending on the mood and time of day.
shareAs far as I can tell (using screen-captures brightened in PhotoShop), a plant similar to the one from which the Grandmother emerged has burst from the boy's body. Whether that implies death or rebirth, despair or hope, I've no idea....
Mark Dillon
that's an idea that really makes sense, epsecially since there were interludes in the film of animated sprouting plants.
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It's like death eatin' a cracker.
And the boy going into that hole and then a tree sprouting from that hole.
shareI took it as a the plant like creature that appeared throughout the film. First reaction was him developing and growing into man or a sort of metamorphosis. That was only my first watch.
More accessible than Eraserhead but does not mean it's any better or worse. Different. I liked the shortness of it as well.
trees, planting seeds, sperm, piles of dirt in rooms, beds, offspring...
relationships to eraserhead are many.
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My interpretation: the tree is dirty and full of spikes, representing all the dirt and *beep* one has to take in its life. The boy pulls his grandma out of misery, and gives her a few last moments of happiness, before she dies. He also gives her something to really love (since the parents of the boy are clearly some animals, and deny her existance).
At the end, the kid disappears inside the tree, meaning he quits his childhood, grows up and follows her grandmother's path of suffering (life).
btw, funny how the parents screamed "MA!... MA!..." :)))
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