Monday, April 11, 2016

BSA206, film history, surrealism part 2, 11 April, 2016

Eraserhead
Impressions of the film:
My viewing of the film was informed by a synopsis I once read that said it was a man's long freakout about fatherhood.  I kept trying to make sense of the film, then had to stop myself because it isn't supposed to make sense.  But then those long "noodles" COULD have been sperm, and that "moon" could have been an egg... so even in a surrealist film, the mind keeps searching for connections and meaning.  Was that baby puppet made from a skinned lamb body?  Did those actors realize film students would be watching them and trying to figure it out for the next 40 years?  All unknown.

 



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