Eraserhead

It's another one by David Lynch, made innn... mid 70's I think?
Anyway. It's filmed all in black and white, and revolves around this man, Henry. Henry lives in this town...all industrialized...tons of big buildings and smoke and machines and noise. He goes over to his girlfriend's, Mary (I think :/), house and is having dinner with her family...which includes a rather bizarre chicken carving scene, I have to bring up . Afterwards, we find out that Mary is pregnant, the result of which is the two living together in Henry's home, and Mary giving birth...to a mutant baby. After the baby is born we are just thrown into this totally confusing and beyond weird story of cackaling mutant babies, a woman in the radiator, and people using brain matter to make pencil erasers? yah...definately not fucked up
So...the way I kinda wrapped up and interpreted what I was watching was it was representing Henry's descent into madness and delusion...maybe.
Okay, so this is what I'm thinking...First of all...I don't see how Henry can be truly happy with the life he is leading...he lives in this polluted, noisy, industrial town...doing a shitty, repetative job in this surrounding that is continually emitting loud, annoying noises...Is there any way a human being can be even moderately sane while having to endure that? Actually, I'm going to correct myself...I said before I don't think that Henry is truly happy...but I'm going to go with, I don't think Henry is in any way emotionally sane.
So...now, the lady in the radiator. I'm thinking ultimately, she represents the madness, insanity, delusion...wherever Henry is headed. This radiator...once again, another element of this film that is emitting this loud constant noise-- actually...isn't there a mental disorder that can result from being exposed to loud, constant noises? I'm not sure...
Anyway, that would make sense. She is the product of the radiator...the radiator is producing noise, noise is causing Henry to be delerious?
It seems to me as though she is urging him to destroy the mutant baby? There is one scene where I’m not sure if it is supposed to be fetuses or sperm or something…falling onto this stage where the lady in the radiator is dancing, and she crushes them…she stomps on them, destroying what is essentially his offspring? In one form or another?
So, now this baby has got to represent something evil…sin…something like that. But I feel like it’s the evil/sin that is within Henry? Multiple times throughout the film, the mutant baby’s head appears as Henry’s own…Henry is eventually compelled to cut open the bandages that surround the baby. Is he now deciding to explore his own self? His own sin? Deciding to tear down those emotional walls that are preventing him from seeing it?
So he does, he rips open the bandages and he finds this revolting looking inside… after staring in disgust at the insides of his baby, he stabs and cuts and destroys the inside of it. Shortly after, he finds himself back with the lady in the radiator…soo…he destroys his sins? And gives in to delirium? A world where he has no sin?
I have no idea
Anyway, I think I’ve rambled for long enough…
I also thought the dream sequence where his head like pops off…and like sinks into a puddle of blood and that boy takes it to the pencil factory kinda thing to be made into eraser was so bizarre! I loved it…it deserved an honourable mention (:
Great movie…honestly, one of my favourite…Definitely my favourite of what I’ve seen from David Lynch…
This is rare…and totally against my nature, but…

9.9/10

just couldn’t do the whole 10/10 thing…