Erasing Eraserhead from my HeadbrijeanaMarch 25 2011, 19:02:49 UTC
//Are you still undecided?//
Nope. Completely convinced.
Oh it does me good to read your recap. I've been feeling so disgusted and confused about this film. I was going to post about it... but it would have been so inappropriate for children. I would have had to mark it mature because it was all Mark Ryden paintings and vaginas with teeth. I was seeing the commentary on Mary... but your post makes me realize that this is about a man obsessing about his own parts... not fearing the female ones. LOL!
Anyhow... this film is a cult classic! That means people enjoy watching it and/or find lots of meaning in it. Maybe all of those people are men? I... I guess there is something innovative about this film, but it kind of made me wish for the unintentional comedy of Ed Wood. LOL!
I was at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday and I saw an Edvard Munch lithograph. There was a description of Symbolism beside it that I was going to use to springboard into a more thoughtful positive review of the film. I forgot it! It was something about the psychological darkness that lurks behind the mundane lives of normal people. Ah well.
It seemed a LOT longer than 90 minutes.
//Only a man would find his wet dreams and nocturnal emissions this interesting to make a four day film about them.//
Re: Erasing Eraserhead from my HeadchatchienMarch 25 2011, 20:07:41 UTC
I like your title--->it is what we all should do to this movie.
all Mark Ryden paintings and vaginas with teeth.
I found it misogynist too, and then I realized that this guy (Henry or David Lynch) can't see beyond his own genitalia and its functions to have any opinion about women or their womanly parts. This movie is all about male obsessions and male functions. The women are all strange because Henry or David have no empathy or sympathy with women. Women, like the baby, are some other strange species, like the dog in Mary's parents' living room.
Lilith and one of Mark Ryden's ladies do like the primordial slime pools.
I was thinking about your observation about the movie, Alien and the loogey/sperm resembling each other.
I checked and this movie was made in 1977 and Alien came out in 1979; so perhaps Alien was influenced by this movie.
Anyhow... this film is a cult classic! That means people enjoy watching it and/or find lots of meaning in it. Maybe all of those people are men?
They have to be high on beer, drugs, or making meth in the kitchen and have a penis to enjoy this movie.
But now that I think about it, the only movie (or TV show) from David Lynch that I have ever been able to sit through was Mulholland Drive. David Lynch is one of those people who always want to tell you about the Cool Dream that they had the night before. As you listen to the re-telling, you are inclined to tell him that his dream is not that Cool. It is boring and can we talk about something else.
I forgot it! It was something about the psychological darkness that lurks behind the mundane lives of normal people
Scarlet Street or Caché or any movie by Michael Haneke is a much better movie that explores that.
Oh well, we have to have a dud every once in while.
Nope. Completely convinced.
Oh it does me good to read your recap. I've been feeling so disgusted and confused about this film. I was going to post about it... but it would have been so inappropriate for children. I would have had to mark it mature because it was all Mark Ryden paintings and vaginas with teeth. I was seeing the commentary on Mary... but your post makes me realize that this is about a man obsessing about his own parts... not fearing the female ones. LOL!
Anyhow... this film is a cult classic! That means people enjoy watching it and/or find lots of meaning in it. Maybe all of those people are men? I... I guess there is something innovative about this film, but it kind of made me wish for the unintentional comedy of Ed Wood. LOL!
I was at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday and I saw an Edvard Munch lithograph. There was a description of Symbolism beside it that I was going to use to springboard into a more thoughtful positive review of the film. I forgot it! It was something about the psychological darkness that lurks behind the mundane lives of normal people. Ah well.
It seemed a LOT longer than 90 minutes.
//Only a man would find his wet dreams and nocturnal emissions this interesting to make a four day film about them.//
Amen.
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all Mark Ryden paintings and vaginas with teeth.
I found it misogynist too, and then I realized that this guy (Henry or David Lynch) can't see beyond his own genitalia and its functions to have any opinion about women or their womanly parts. This movie is all about male obsessions and male functions. The women are all strange because Henry or David have no empathy or sympathy with women. Women, like the baby, are some other strange species, like the dog in Mary's parents' living room.
Lilith and one of Mark Ryden's ladies do like the primordial slime pools.
I was thinking about your observation about the movie, Alien and the loogey/sperm resembling each other.
I checked and this movie was made in 1977 and Alien came out in 1979; so perhaps Alien was influenced by this movie.
Anyhow... this film is a cult classic! That means people enjoy watching it and/or find lots of meaning in it. Maybe all of those people are men?
They have to be high on beer, drugs, or making meth in the kitchen and have a penis to enjoy this movie.
But now that I think about it, the only movie (or TV show) from David Lynch that I have ever been able to sit through was Mulholland Drive. David Lynch is one of those people who always want to tell you about the Cool Dream that they had the night before. As you listen to the re-telling, you are inclined to tell him that his dream is not that Cool. It is boring and can we talk about something else.
I forgot it! It was something about the psychological darkness that lurks behind the mundane lives of normal people
Scarlet Street or Caché or any movie by Michael Haneke is a much better movie that explores that.
Oh well, we have to have a dud every once in while.
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