tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post2833692134862485874..comments2024-03-24T14:03:33.932-07:00Comments on Every 70s Movie: Eraserhead (1977)By Peter Hansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11385971732301020652noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-18980845474609851532022-11-23T00:51:07.487-08:002022-11-23T00:51:07.487-08:00Saw this way back some years ago, and frankly this...Saw this way back some years ago, and frankly this film is so damn weird, I swear it's almost as if it was made by an alien from outer space that decided to make a film about people on Earth as a means of studying them---and it came up with this flick. It's truly and genuinely bizarre, and is probably the only film I've seen that actually felt like it was made by someone from another planet. What's unique about Eraserhead is how Lynch managed to create this whole entire insular world unto itself in in the movie, in which literally nothing in it is recognizable as anything anyone would even remotely call "normal". Definitely one-of-a-kind in is own right. <br /><br />Lynch also made an early short film called The Grandmother (1970) which can be seen on youtube. If you thought Eraserhead was weird as hell, you have to see The Grandmother, which is even darker, weirder, and creepier---and given how out-there Eraserhead is, that's saying a hell of a lot, lol. <br /><br /><br />squeakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05605962176523261516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-8703977915500789842021-09-05T18:28:36.609-07:002021-09-05T18:28:36.609-07:00This is not really an experimental film, being a m...This is not really an experimental film, being a more-or-less obvious narrative without abstraction. Even if it does elevate the mise-en-scene to the level of character, that's not unprecedented. Indeed, it's a staple of expressionist film. The themes of <i>Eraserhead</i> are rather obvious: fear of fatherhood and the seductions of a world that would rather simply nuke everything. This is a highly moral, even reactionary, film. But that's not surprising. As Kyría Ioánna said, Lynch is a boy scout with an essentially fifties moral framework. Fear of sex. It all comes back to.robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08743788064455642852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-30642830210658841122021-06-16T17:34:25.954-07:002021-06-16T17:34:25.954-07:00You're never sure if Lynch's persona is a ...You're never sure if Lynch's persona is a put-on? That's the Trickster in him. Ironically, the joke is inverted, which must tickle Lynch's sense of humor. He's one of the sincerest people in showbiz. He doesn't do put-on personas. The square, American, unhip Eagle Scout from 1950s Missoula, Montana is not a put-on, it's exactly who he is. He presents himself to the world sincerely as he is, and they assume since he's the freakiest of the freaks it must be a put-on persona. Lynch is genuinely spiritual and he loves order and harmony, which he fears is threatened by all the horror and psychological chaos he films. His way of dealing with that fear is to explore the horror and psychological chaos to its fullest extent. He gains a sort of mastery over it by directing it instead of succumbing to it.Kyría Ioánnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683342148849164703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8823340817818385797.post-41673577234509991682021-06-16T17:19:04.536-07:002021-06-16T17:19:04.536-07:00What other movie could have this line?: "They...What other movie could have this line?: "They're still not sure it is a baby!"Kyría Ioánnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15683342148849164703noreply@blogger.com