I just watched Eraserhead, ask me anything.

[lectrobyte]

'cause I don't think I want to go to sleep for a good while yet...

[Droopy]

1. Did you understand the movie?

If so, please explain it to me.

[lectrobyte]

8. In heaven, everything is fine. Some of it seemed sort of obvious.

A lot of it just seemed to play on the subconscious. The whole bit of meeting the in-laws, the giant sperm, the "move over". I'm a tad freaked by it all, still, I didn't know movies could be like that.

[jonnyblitz]

20. that was my favorite part, the girl in the radiator singing that song

which the Pixies did a version of also.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Saw that many years ago, about '78, and it completely weirded me out.

I still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about it. Damn, but that was a seriously strange movie.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Do you feel cheated?

Feel like someone just yanked your chain?

[lectrobyte]

9. No, not really. I liked the soundtrack, and the movie seemed to

at least make dream sense to me. I didn't really know a lot about it beforehand, but I'd seen some of his other movies (Blue Velvet, Straight Story) and sort of had some ideas as to what it might mean. The scenes with the "baby" were difficult.

[Gold Metal Flake]

16. It is like a dream.

If you are prone to troubling dreams while on certain medications, like codiene, it's like that. But, when it is all done, you are left with these troubling images and nothing behind them. That is, there is no message or question or debate with which to consider the images, to sort them or to draw conclusions from them. No real path to putting the images into some sort of context or draw lessons from them. The images and your reactions just hang around in your brain for years afterward, fucking with you.

I see no point to the movie, other than an exercise in personal excess on the part of Lynch. That has become his style.

JMO.

[leeroysphitz]

22. IMO Lynch has always been about "style" way over "substance"

He won't let little things like "story" or "plot" interfere with his vision. It doesn't bother him to spend money on a film consisting of an almost random string of vaguely disquieting images and off the wall cinematic techniques for the sole purpose of achieving some unique aesthetic as long as that aesthetic pleases him and if only him then so be it.

See his film "Lost Highway" and the interview included in the special features DVD for some confirmation of this.

[peekaloo]

4. I feel like chicken tonight, chicken tonight.

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okay that wasn't a question but that commercial came to mind.

[lectrobyte]

10. Yeah, man made chickens. Just like regular chicken.

[Giant Robot]

5. Ok

What's Eraserhead???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. David Lynch movie, came out in the late '70s.

Deeply, deeply weird and disturbing.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Here...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/

[rockymountaindem]

6. I once read a summary of that movie

and I'm way to afraid of that to watch it.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Nice, I haven't watched that in ages.

Picked up the dvd a few weeks back, though.

[tuvor]

13. Did you and Mary have sexual intercourse?

Well???

[lectrobyte]

14. Yeah. That part freaked me out. They're not sure it's a baby...

[kedrys]

15. How long d'ya think it's going to take for you to purge it from memory?

I saw it ONCE a lifetime ago (it seems), and I *refuse* to go near it ever again. It totally freaked me out. :scared:

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. You've got your good things...

...and I've got mine.

[patcox2]

18. I'm glad I'm not the only one deeply disturbed by it.

I was afraid I had gone insane, because I could not believe that anyone else on earth could be so insane as to make, hell, even think up, what I was seeing, I therefore concluded that what I was seeing could not be real (a real work of fiction.)

[leftofthedial]

19. what was it about?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Would you recommend it?

And was it on cable?

[bridgit]

23. so you found lynch's use of nausea as a 'color' disturbing?

so did i :scared: