23rd December 2011, 7:10 PM
Eraserhead is excellent. The Kubrick connection actually still applies, because Stanley apparently wrote a letter to Lynch telling him how much he loved it.
That said, I love Eraserhead. It's less about a straightforward, conventional plot, and more about provoking feelings of fear and anxiety in its viewer, like a bad dream. It manages to make me more unsettled and nervous than just about every horror movie I've ever seen. It's not so much a deep and life-changing journey, it's about a man's life, already steeped in an a hellish industrial wasteland, and how it goes even further down the drain when his deformed child is born.
There's some good imagery and cinematography in the film, but I perfectly understand that it's hardly accessible, and that it's perfectly legitimate for a viewer to walk away thinking that it's tripe. I actually don't care much for Lynch's other work -- see Muholland Drive, Lost Highway. Inland Empire put me to sleep, but holy shit, I woke up to some terrifying clips.
Anyway, different strokes and all that. I can't stand it when an enthusiast of a piece of art shoots back, "Well, you just don't get it, maaaan!!" Maybe I don't, but get off your fucking high horse.
That said, I love Eraserhead. It's less about a straightforward, conventional plot, and more about provoking feelings of fear and anxiety in its viewer, like a bad dream. It manages to make me more unsettled and nervous than just about every horror movie I've ever seen. It's not so much a deep and life-changing journey, it's about a man's life, already steeped in an a hellish industrial wasteland, and how it goes even further down the drain when his deformed child is born.
There's some good imagery and cinematography in the film, but I perfectly understand that it's hardly accessible, and that it's perfectly legitimate for a viewer to walk away thinking that it's tripe. I actually don't care much for Lynch's other work -- see Muholland Drive, Lost Highway. Inland Empire put me to sleep, but holy shit, I woke up to some terrifying clips.
Anyway, different strokes and all that. I can't stand it when an enthusiast of a piece of art shoots back, "Well, you just don't get it, maaaan!!" Maybe I don't, but get off your fucking high horse.