Who here has seen Eraserhead? It's been on my list of movies to watch for several years now, and I finally saw it tonight.

All I can say is, wow! That might have been the most bizarre, disturbing, and surreal movie I have ever seen. It was well done, and I liked it, but it was so strange.

Does anyone want to offer their interpretation of it? I'm still mulling it over, and I'm not sure what to make of it yet.

My interpretation of it is that David Lynch is a very disturbed man who makes enigmatically entertaining and disquieting films. I suppose Blue Velvet is his most mainstream film, and it is the first one of his that I saw. If I had seen Eraserhead first, I'm not sure I would have ever watched another of his films!

I don't think I have much to offer beyond that.

I loved Mulholland Drive and Inland Empire. My latest take is that he is influenced by Kafka, but he comes through female perspective, at least in these two. I think the guy is a genius. Some scenes that creep me out or scare me, shouldn't. I mean, I wouldn't have thought they would. And uneasiness.

No, Bruce Willis does not kill the bad guy in the end.

The setting of the film is a slum in the heart of an industrial center. It is rife with urban decay, rundown factories, and a soundtrack composed exclusively of the noises of machinery. Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is a printer who is "on vacation." He gives off an air of nervousness, but makes few direct complaints about his life situation. At the start of the film, Henry, who has not heard from his girlfriend, Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) for a while, mistakenly believes that she has ended their relationship. He is invited to have dinner with Mary and her parents at their house. During dinner, Henry is told that Mary has just had a baby. Henry is then obliged to marry her.

Mary and the baby move into Henry's one-room apartment. The baby is hideously deformed and has a reptilian appearance: a large snout-nose with slit nostrils, a pencil-thin neck, eyes on the sides of its head, no ears, and a limbless body covered in bandages. It continually whines throughout the night.

A sleep-deprived Mary abandons Henry and the baby. After Mary leaves, Henry must care for the baby by himself, and he becomes involved in a series of strange events. These include bizarre encounters with the Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near), a woman with grotesquely distended cheeks who lives in his radiator (she sings the iconic song "In Heaven"); visions of the ominous Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk); and a sexual liaison with his neighbor, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (Judith Anna Roberts).

The film's title comes from a dream sequence occurring during the last half hour of the film. In it, Henry’s head detaches from his body, sinks into a growing pool of blood on a tile floor, falls from the sky, and, finally, lands on an empty street and cracks open. A young boy (Thomas Coulson) finds Henry's broken head and takes it to a pencil factory, where Paul (Darwin Joston), the desk clerk, summons his ill-tempered boss (Neil Moran) to the front desk by repeatedly pushing a buzzer. The boss, angered by the summons, yells at Paul, but regains his composure when he sees what the little boy has brought. The boss and the boy carry the head to a back room where the Pencil Machine Operator (Hal Landon, Jr.) takes a core sample of Henry's brain, assays it, and determines that it is a serviceable material for pencil erasers. The boy is then paid for bringing in Henry's head. The Pencil Machine Operator then sweeps the eraser shavings off of the desk and sends them billowing into the air.

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