>it's about fatherhood!
Then what the FRICK is the scene where the movie gets its title from about?
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I don't think David Lynch knows what this movie is about
>it's about fatherhood!
Then what the FRICK is the scene where the movie gets its title from about?
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i understood every single aspect of the film on my first watch. you are just moronic
Explain the eraserhead scene then.
The metaphor is so obvious that it's embarrassing that someone like Lynch would even include it
Yeah I thought it was stupid obvious too haha... explain it though so these idiots can feel dumb for not getting it like you and me...
He has no idea.
Yes he does and I do as well
Henry wound up killing himself, the ending was the interdimensional demons harvesting his loosh/garmonbozia. You're welcome.
I'm about to give up the 'Bozia myself lads. It's not been a good few weeks
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Hope you are doing better my fren. I am rooting for you.
Literally the only part of the film that is excused to make no sense, its a dream sequence just to show how henry feels
>it's ok!
Quick guess:
Eraser-headed pencils kinda look like little men. In packets and in a cup they look like a bunch of production-line little men. Older pencils from Lynch's childhood era often had length-wise stripes, which kinda echoed suits. So you have the stripe-suited "body", the "collar" and the eraser "head".
And what happens to a pencil over it's lifetime?
It gets worn away. And the more mistakes it makes the faster the eraser gets worn away.
Little 1950s factory made men with no real individual identity, who if want to erase their mistakes (to avoid being trashed as defective products), every time they do so they are diminished more and more.
Factory defects are supposed to get disposed of before they reach the customer (the QA process we see with the Dad actor from Bill and Ted) but in Henry's case something went wrong when the weird supernatural guy pulls factory level a out-puts mutant child to earth (mutant child is a defective product - possibly because the father is defective also, a misfit). This is what all the factory imagery and industrial pollution imagery is about.
A pencil has two main uses. It can be used to be creative, or it can be used to do office work.
MC just wants to disappear into his fantasies (creative use of himself and his time), a place where you don't make mistakes so his head/identity doesn't get "worn away".
Also, Henry's big hair could mean the fantasy of "infinite erases". All that dust floating around his head is all his problems and mistakes being eased away. Which is why he looks weirdly happy.
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So if you take all this interpret a pencil as "the time and potential you have" on earth, where you have quite a "long" section where you can work/draw/make and do the things you want (indulge in creativity/freedoms/fantasies) but also the things you have to (responsibilities), you only have a small section that allows you to undo any mistakes you make. And one big mistake (a deformed child) can wipe out your entire ability to fix your mistakes in one hit.
Metaphor level: SO OBVIOUS AND EMBARRASSING IT'S A crime AGAINST ART!
Conclusion: these anons were right.
2/10. Lynch's WORST!!!!!!!!!!! It should be ERAAAAAAAAASED!!!!
Nah it was this anon
thus the /thread after
>t. Lynch
I like how it’s pretty easy to follow most of the movie, except for that scene. And you could just ignore it, as it’s just some random moment not necessarily relevant, but it HAS to be relevant because it’s the titular scene.
The claymation scene with the worm henry takes from his mailbox is also incomprehensible, youre right otherwise though
Yeah there’s other confusing scenes but you could kind of ignore their significance where the scene that gave the movie its title must have some deep relevance
It's just a reference to the main character's hair.
the whole film revolves around the idea of the Ego, the Self, whatever you call it
you gotta be pretty fricking stupid
It's about if you had the worst baby ever would you kill it or not
>I don't think David Lynch knows what this movie is about
Where did Lynch explicitly say it was about fatherhood? Lynch seems to be a proponent of the "Death of the Author." He always resists imposing his personal interpretation of his work onto the audience.
Lynch didn't say it, his fans do in an effort to prove that this film is some artistic statement rather than just some le random vignettes
>to prove that this film is some artistic statement rather than just some le random vignettes
Ok moron. What is the point of art if you're just going to reduce it to some written statement and declare that as the only valid interpretation?
There’s not even one valid interpretation, the film makes no sense
LOOK AT MY KNEES!
My parents separated when I was 12 and our dad would have use every other weekend. One of the first weekends I stayed over there he put this on for me and my brother and left on a date.
Your dad is a frickin legend m8
Pretty sure Lynch knocked up some chick in art school and this was the Spectre of his fear of fatherhood manifesting
I mean, he had a 4 year old when he started making this