Does anyone know what the heck the movie Eraserhead is about!!!?!
Question: I just watched it yesterday, it's really creepy...
Answers: I just watched it yesterday, it's really creepy...
The film starts with a man named Henry Spencer hovering in space. His brain, represented by a rocky planet visible through his head, hovers behind him. In Henry's brain there is a Man in the Planet who pulls levers to control Henry's functions which represents his central nervous system. This scene is going to represent Henry having sexual intercourse with a woman named Mary X. Henry's mouth opens and a spermatozoon slides its way out, then rests erect at Henry's side. The Man in the Planet pulls several levers and launches the sperm into a water hole which represents the vagina of Mary X. Some time passes and a creature is born in the depths and rises to the surface.
The next scene starts with Henry looking at the camera. He then proceeds to walk home to his apartment through a slum in an industrial wasteland. When he gets to the lobby, he checks the mail and finds there is none. He then takes the elevator up to his apartment. Before he gets inside, the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall informs him that Mary X called and invited him to dinner. While at the apartment, Henry puts on music, takes off his shoes and puts his socks on the radiator since they were wet from stepping in a puddle while walking home. He then stares at the radiator which represents thoughts of suicide. We see that around the radiator there are electrical wires around it. In the background is a picture of a mushroom cloud which shows the setting to be a post-apocalyptic future. He then throws a stone in a pot of water which is meant to be a superstitious gesture, and looks at a picture of Mary.
He then goes over to Mary's house to meet her family and have dinner. Before he goes in, they mention Henry and Mary's strained relationship. While Henry is talking with Mrs. X, it's revealed that Henry is a printer but is "on vacation". Henry meeting the family is portrayed as very awkward throughout the scene. The family attempt to eat the artificial chickens and salad but everything goes wrong when the chickens start twitching and bleeding when Henry tries to carve them. After dinner, Mrs. X interrogates Henry about whether or not he had pre-marital sexual intercourse with Mary. He confirms that they did and it's revealed that Mary had a deformed, premature baby. Mrs. X orders that they must get married as soon as possible and pick up the baby from the hospital.
The next scene cuts to after they get married and get the mutated, alien baby home. Henry arrives, checks the mail to find a worm in a stylish black box which represents porn. Henry hides this from Mary first in his pocket and later in a cupboard next to the bed. He gets home and contemplates suicide again, this time more seriously this time. The baby continues crying continually, until Mary can't stand it and goes back home, leaving Henry to deal with the baby.
Henry begins to dream of dark and troubling things. He has nightmares about the baby getting sick, being seduced by the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall and continually checks the worm in the cupboard which represents masturbation which eventually consumes him. While awake he seriously contemplates suicide which is shown by the Lady in the Radiator (representing Death) singing about everything being fine in Heaven while squashing the cause of all his problems, the symbols of his sexual intercourse with Mary. He then has a nightmare about him being decapitated and his head being taken to an eraser factory to make erasers out of.
Upon waking up he hears something outside his apartment. He then sees the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall being intimate with a man named Mr. Roundheels. When he gets back inside his apartment, the baby makes strange cackling sounds as though it's laughing at Henry. Henry eventually gets enraged by this and eventually decides to murder the baby. The baby's innards flow over the electrical wires which then produce sparks and short-circuit the lights. Henry is feels guilt over what he has done and starts hallucinating. He then commits suicide by electrocution and is then shown embracing the Lady in the Radiator.
Nope, sorry, I've no idea what it's about. It's a brilliant film though.
isnt it that guy who erases stuff with his head??
and hes like a deformed pencil man or someshit??
Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable, Henry Spencer lives in a building that, like all the others, appears to be abandoned. The lights flicker on and off, he has bowls of water in his dresser drawers, and for his only diversion he watches and listens to the Lady in the Radiator sing about finding happiness in heaven. Henry has a girlfriend, Mary X, who has frequent spastic fits. Mary gives birth to Henry's child, a frightening looking mutant, which leads to the injection of all sorts of sexual imagery into the depressive and chaotic mix. Written by Rick Gregory {rag.apa@email.apa.org}
Waste of your life watching it. I swear....I felt like I actually I got dumber after I sat through it. It absolutely is the worst movie on the planet.
David Lynch is an artistic genious. I think that everyone interprets the movie in their own way.
The movie means different things to each person who watches it. That's what makes it such a beautiful film.
I think Lynch is making a statement with this movie about what happens when dim witted people have children. Their everyday life is so gloomy, routine and unremarkable that they simply go insane. They don't even view thier child as a child but as a mutant. It's like a nightmare.