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Eraserhead (1977)
Lynch's infamous surrealistic film about a strange man with a strange haircut in a dark, industrialized world is most certainly one of the oddest movies ever made.
The extremely simplified plot:
When Henry visits his girlfriend, Mary, and his parents-in-law, they tell him that Mary was pregnant and had a premature baby and that they have to marry.
After they married, Mary has a breakdown because of the (deformed) baby and leaves Henry alone with "it"...
There are a lot of interpretations of this film. Nobody really knows for sure what David Lynch actually meant with characters like "the man in the planet" or the "lady in the radiator". Lynch himself describes the movie as a "dream of dark and troubling things".
I personally see it as a nightmarish tale with a lot of atmosphere and some unbelievably beautiful scenes! When placing myself inside Lynch's dark dreamworld, I experienced the man inside the planet as a kind of higher force who's pulling the strings and the lady in the radiator as the bright spot in this darkness.
Although I can't explain everything that happens in it, I got carried away by the film's wonderful black and white cinematography and its odd world and characters. I liked it and I will watch this again for sure!
I don't really like to give a rating to this one, but I'll try anyway. At this very moment, I rate this film:
Eraserhead (1977)
Lynch's infamous surrealistic film about a strange man with a strange haircut in a dark, industrialized world is most certainly one of the oddest movies ever made.
The extremely simplified plot:
When Henry visits his girlfriend, Mary, and his parents-in-law, they tell him that Mary was pregnant and had a premature baby and that they have to marry.
After they married, Mary has a breakdown because of the (deformed) baby and leaves Henry alone with "it"...
There are a lot of interpretations of this film. Nobody really knows for sure what David Lynch actually meant with characters like "the man in the planet" or the "lady in the radiator". Lynch himself describes the movie as a "dream of dark and troubling things".
I personally see it as a nightmarish tale with a lot of atmosphere and some unbelievably beautiful scenes! When placing myself inside Lynch's dark dreamworld, I experienced the man inside the planet as a kind of higher force who's pulling the strings and the lady in the radiator as the bright spot in this darkness.
Although I can't explain everything that happens in it, I got carried away by the film's wonderful black and white cinematography and its odd world and characters. I liked it and I will watch this again for sure!
I don't really like to give a rating to this one, but I'll try anyway. At this very moment, I rate this film: