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From: leei@princeton.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Badfilm Fans?
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Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 04:39:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 04:39:25 1983
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I really don't know why so many people think that "Eraserhead" is a bad film.
It is a disturbing, difficult to understand, strange Strange STRANGE film, but
it is by no means bad.

David Lynch ("The Elephant Man") wrote, directed, and generally dreamed the
whole thing up on his own.  It was, as far as I understand it, originally the
same kind of student project as George Lucas' "THX-1138", but both of them
expanded (swelled?) into bigger territory.

"Eraserhead" is a seemingly disjointed view of a man, a woman and a baby in
a post-apocalypse setting.  (Apparently Mr. Lynch dedicated the scenery in his
film to Philadelphia.  What a sense of humour that guy's got :~| )  The whole
thing takes on the feeling of a horrible, unavoidable nightmare as our
protagonist visits his girlfriend's family and then takes her back to live with
him.  She has had a baby that looks about as human as a very large sperm cell
with a face and they are going to bring it up.  The 'baby' is wrapped in a
white cloth that appears to be acting as a protective cover and throughout the
film we are given hints as to what might be underneath, but we don't know.  And
apparently, neither does daddy, because after mommy leaves him, his curiosity
gets the better of him and he takes a pair of scissors to the cloth.  The only
problem with this is that opening this cloth also opens up the baby ...

Altogether, probably the most disturbing hour and a half I've ever spent.  Very
well put together, but my how a good psychiatrist would have fun with this one.


			NOT A BAD FILM BY ANY MEANS.

					- Lee Iverson
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