"Erasehead" is a film about an industrialized post-apocalyptic world. Therefore it is a political commentary on the possibility of society moving into such a crushing state. George Lucas's "THX1138" is also a film about a post-apocalyptic world. Neither film would probably sit well with some people. "Erasehead" was embraced by the arts community. Lynch was also inspired by Salvadore Dali's 1929 short "Un Chein Andalou": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020530/
Sometimes you have to create shocking art to wake up an otherwise sleeping public. On 06/01/2013 01:41 PM, drpsutphen wrote: > When Lynch is constrained by a more traditional narrative he does fine with > only a little weirdness coming through from time-to-time. But Judy or Share, > have you seen "Eraserhead"? There is no way you can think such a movie comes > from a normal mind. This is a very "sick" movie. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@> wrote: >>> If you can watch the Twin Peaks series and NOT say that son >>> of a bitch is ill in his feeble mind then there is something >>> seriously wrong with you. >> Must be something wrong with me, then. I thought much of >> "Twin Peaks" was brilliant. >> >> And it was must-see TV at the time, too, so I had lots of >> company. >> >> A lot of it was side-splittingly funny. Some of the humor >> was creepy, but dude, this was prime-time network television, >> so obviously it wasn't "ill" enough to make most people >> uncomfortable. >> >> If it made you uncomfortable, fine, you're entitled. But of >> all the possible descriptions of the mind of the guy >> responsible, "feeble" is about the last one that could >> legitimately be applied. >> >> IMHO, of course. >> > >
