11th March 2015, 8:31 PM
I really appreciated Boyhood at least. I thought it was very well made, and I liked the overall theme of "things don't work out the way you plan, and you're always always growing up, forever". When I say I felt like I was "just visiting", I mean I don't see myself in the kid, like at all. Not a single bit was relate-able to me. I see how he got to that point, but the adult he ended up at is the sort of adult that would make Eraserhead and then explain that I just haven't backpacked across Europe enough to "get" it, basically someone I'd normally consider unlikable, had I not seen exactly how he ended up there. Basically, I did precisely NONE of the things that kid did growing up. I suppose I should have expected that going in mind you :D, but again I have to say it does a great job showing how that kid got to that point, and LOTS of young men, (a lot of them born around the year 2000) say they DO see a LOT of themselves in that kid, so heck, it's a good movie, just not one aimed at me or my experiences, that's all. Go see it though, I think you'll like it.
Eraserhead is a whole other beast. I can't even pretend to START understanding what the heck that was all about. You say it's about fatherhood, which means the monster his girlfriend gave birth to really was supposed to represent just... a kid. Not something like "the main character is you and the girlfriend is society and their relationship represents society's demands of you and the baby represents the monsters it makes of us all, who is the REAL society?". No, it's just flat out the fears of fatherhood? What am I to make of him killing that baby then? Does that represent him actually seeing a real baby as a monster and stabbing it with scissors, and not "severing his ties with society" to "kill the monster" it made of him? That sure makes me really hate the main character...
I'll need to check out Twin Peaks. I've had it sitting in my Netflix queue for a while now. It looks interesting. I do love surreal things, and that looks like it'd be really good. I at least have some idea of what's going on from what I've heard.
Eraserhead is a whole other beast. I can't even pretend to START understanding what the heck that was all about. You say it's about fatherhood, which means the monster his girlfriend gave birth to really was supposed to represent just... a kid. Not something like "the main character is you and the girlfriend is society and their relationship represents society's demands of you and the baby represents the monsters it makes of us all, who is the REAL society?". No, it's just flat out the fears of fatherhood? What am I to make of him killing that baby then? Does that represent him actually seeing a real baby as a monster and stabbing it with scissors, and not "severing his ties with society" to "kill the monster" it made of him? That sure makes me really hate the main character...
I'll need to check out Twin Peaks. I've had it sitting in my Netflix queue for a while now. It looks interesting. I do love surreal things, and that looks like it'd be really good. I at least have some idea of what's going on from what I've heard.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)