In 1977 David Lynch's "ERASERHEAD" had packed midnight movie theaters for endless nights. It is said that if you asked 10 people what this movie was about, you would get 10 different answers.
If anyone knows the real answer I would really appreciate it.
2006-06-15 12:49:27 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
David Lynch has said that no one who has attempted to explain this movie got it right, so I don't feel quite so bad in saying that I'm not sure I could tell you. The rough outline of the story is that Henry Spencer, a young man living in an industrial wasteland, discovers he has fathered a grotesquely inhuman baby with his girlfriend, Mary X. They move in together, but the baby's ceaseless crying drives her back to her parents, leaving Henry to care for the child alone.
I'm sure everyone has one or more attempts at explanation, but I won't attempt one without watching the DVD again. I think the main attraction of the film was its surrealistic, nightmarish aura. It is filmed in stark black and white, the soundtrack consists of eerie organ music and incessant industrial noise, and the acting is nearly totally affectless.
Many of the scenes are dreams or hallucinations. In one, Henry's head falls off and is replaced by the head of the grotesque baby. A boy takes the head to a pencil factory, where it is made into erasers. Add to this a lovemaking scene in a bed full of milk, a tiny woman with swollen cheeks who appears in the radiator and sings "in heaven everything is fine", and recurring appearances of what look to be giant spermatozoa.
I have heard that Lynch's first child was born around the time he made the film, so you could see the film in part as his take on the terrors of fatherhood. (And Fathers' day is coming right up...)
Without doubt, one of the strangest movies ever made. Watch this, and everything else Lynch has done will seem normal by comparison.
2006-06-15 13:29:53 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think David Lynch has still kept his mouth shut about what it's supposed to be about so there's no "real" answer.
I know that Lynch has his die-hard fans, but I think this movie was an overly artsy waste of time.
2006-06-15 13:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by belial 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i saw that movie years ago and still not sure what it was about
2006-06-15 12:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by crazi8red 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Henry's nightmare.
2006-06-15 12:58:08 · answer #4 · answered by spackler 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋