Wtf did I just see?


Just watched this movie and I have no idea of whether I love or hate it. It was quite disturbing and I have no clue of what it was really about.

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Welcome to ERASERHEAD!


I'm told even writer/director Lynch is at a loss as to what it's actually about.



It's themes seem to revolve around alienation, fear of first-time parenthood, deformity and macabre fantasies perhaps around loss of identity.

Hard to say really!







And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

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Doesn't look like it was 'that' hard to say though...



"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan

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Agreed, he laid out all the central themes pretty easily.

I can't say I get all out of it, but as to what it's about (or trying to say) it's actually pretty straightforward with it's themes.

Although I still have no idea what was going on in that whole "Eraserhead" sequence. Really no clue at all, actually--anybody have any ideas? It's the one thing that doesn't seem to fit. Well...actually maybe The Man in the planet too? Not positive on what was going on there, or how it fits with the central ideas.

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David Lynch described this movie as essentially being the filmic expression of undefined feelings that he had experienced but couldn't explain through words alone, so it's easy to say "oh it's just a movie about alienation," when it's really so much more than just that. Eraserhead is about that indescribable feeling of constant confusion, feeling as if everyone else was made one way but you another, which is so much more than just alienation.
The movie kinda reminds me of 'The Ballad of the Thin Man' by Bob Dylan, in that the main character is surrounded by all these people that he thinks are weird and that should be considered weird, but in his reality those weird people are the norm and he, the one that is normal to us, is the one that's truly out of place.

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