Movie Night: Eraserhead
My Movie viewing companion, brijeana , and I both chose this movie, so neither one of us can blame it on the other one.
About halfway through this VERY LONG (85 minutes, just under one and half hours? Wow, it dragged out my life by two or three years) movie, my movie viewing companion said to me, "He really doesn't want to help you to understand this movie, does he? He is not giving away any clues."
I responded, "I don't need his friggin' help, I will make up my own."
Click to viewMr. Lynch doesn't know the Meaning of Eraserhead and he admits it.
Mr. Lynch does say that he got the movie when he was reading the Bible. One verse inspired this movie. I know what that verse is:
And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
Leviticus 15:16 or 16: 15
Does it really matter?
This film really doesn't have a plot or much dialog or much characterization, so I will provide them.
There is this guy named Henry who is on vacation but not from his anxieties. His anxieties are working full time.
What has Henry to be anxious about?
At the beginning of the film, Henry appears to be in the movie, Star Wars. He is the Star Ship Death Trooper Space Ship gliding silently and deadly through space. He is going toward a planet. Is he on a Rendezvous with Destiny?
Henry yawns and spawns.
The spawn is rather a peculiar looking thing. It looks like a long string of Henry's loogey.
Henry hacks it up and spits it out into a sink, puddle, basin, or Hole?
This takes Henry about one third of the movie. Henry is obsessed with his body functions. He likes to savour them.
OR, IS THAT A PLANET AND IS THAT A LOOGEY? We will concede that the loogey is Henry's.
Is that Planet AN EGG?
AND IS THAT LOOGEY A SPERM?
AND IS THAT HOLE, A VAGINA? I'll leave that picture for you to imagine.
Are you still undecided?
Henry goes to dinner at his girlfriend's house and meets her family.
Everyone has strange hair in this movie. And strange habits. Mary, Henry's girlfriend, is hacking up a hair ball or a baby while her mother combs her hair.
Mary's dad, Bill, is molesting baby chicks and locking them up in the cupboard.
Mary's Mom and Grandma are tossing salads in the kitchen. Grandma has to practice before she runs off to the docks and welcomes the sailors home from the sea.
Henry is the only one who casts a shadow at the dinner table, if you don't count the salad bows. Grandma is not at the table, she is down at the docks.
Bill invites Henry to carve a chick, but the strangest thing happens. The chick starts humping Henry's knife and then exudes gravy as it becomes satisfied.
Mary's Mom watches and this causes her to have an orgasm with the chick.
Grandma is also a satisfied woman after she has come back from the sea (or the shores of the sea) and the satisfied sailors.
It was good for her.
Mary's Mom makes the move on Henry. I mean, how could any woman resist the charms of Henry?
Every woman in this movie wants to jump that. This movie is a fantasy by the way.
Mary's Mom tells Henry that Mary and Henry have had sex and now they have a baby to pick up at the hospital. Talk about fantasies, Mary and Henry don't even know what sex is and they haven't had anything resembling it. Much like The Baby that doesn't resemble any Baby.
This is Mary and The Baby Baby.
This is The Baby Baby. It is enough to make you cry. It makes The Baby Baby cry.
This is Mary's pet dog feeding her babies. What can this mean? I think that it is a stroke of Nature in the UnNatural. There are also Crickets Chirping through the movie, but there are no hearths. The Baby Baby does look a bit like Jiminy Cricket, now doesn't it?
The Baby Baby also looks like the head of the Orgasming Dinner Chicken too.
The Baby Baby also looks like Henry's Loogey...or Sperm.
By this time, my viewing companion and I were offering suggestions to Henry and Mary about what they could do with The Baby Baby who was always crying and wouldn't you cry too if you looked like it and had its parents?
I told Mary and Henry that they should throw The Baby Baby out of the window.
Look out that window. No one would ever know. No one would ever see.
But instead, Mary leaves. "I can go whenever I want," she says to Henry who lies passively in his bed.
Henry is stuck with The Baby Baby.
The Baby Baby is really going to curtail Henry's Exciting Life.
Poor guy.
The Baby Baby gets sick...
I think that it has an STD.
And Henry decides to celebrate its imminent demise by having sex with Lilith/Helena Bonham Carter who lives across the hallway.
There is not a woman in this movie who can resist Henry's well hidden charms.
Henry and Lilith/Helena sink into the cess pool primordial slime of passion which is where we last saw Henry's Loogey/Sperm.
Then Henry has Mary Sex (and that is questionable Sex) with some Blonde Singing and Dancing Chick.
She has a face like that piece of dinner orgasming chick.
She also crushes Henry's Loogeys/Sperms. I guess that she won't be having any of Henry's The Baby Baby.
Henry has stepped in it now.
Henry loses his head over the Blonde Singing and Dancing Chick and becomes Larry of the Three Stooges.
Hey there Larry, where's Moe and Curly? This movie is like Shep---not as good as Curly.
At this point in the movie, my viewing companion said, "How is this going to end? How is it wrapped up?"
I said, "WHeeeeeeeeN is this going to end?"
And David Lynch decided that he had better earn the title for the movie, Eraserhead. Up until now, this movie should have been named Henry's Wet Dream. Or The Night Emission of the Sperm.
Henry's head (get it?) is picked up by a little boy, ewwwwwww! The little boy takes it to a pencil factory.
The pencil factory tech drills for dumb, I mean rubber, and uses the bore from Henry's head, are you keeping up with the double entendres and puns? I'm knot, not.
The erasers are mounted and tested.
And the Eraser Tech assures us that Henry is ALL RIGHT!
Only in your world, buddy.
Then Henry decides to kill The Baby Baby.
The Baby Baby has balls.
And Henry stabs The Baby Baby's balls with a pair of scissors.
Then The Baby Baby develops contraceptive foam which is what Henry should have used in his Mary Sex to prevent The Baby Baby from ever happening.
And the movie mercifully ENDED.
My viewing companion and I concluded that Henry castrated himself and committed suicide. Our regret was that he had not done it five minutes into this film.
Only a man would find his wet dreams and nocturnal emissions this interesting to make a four day film about them.
Screen Caps by Me and Pity me because I had to watch this thing twice to make them.
The Gif is from someone on Tumblr who had to watch this movie even more times to make the Gif. Pity that Fool too.