--- In [email protected], "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@...> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Share Long <sharelong60@> wrote: > > > > > > Dr. PS, as I said, I've only seen Elephant Man and The Straight Story. > > > Even from these two, I can tell that Lynch does not have a normal mind, > > > whatever that is! I just read the plot summary of Eraserhead on rotten > > > tomatoes. It does not sound like my favorite type of film (-: > > > > > > Eraserhead is about eternal Love. I think you would like it, once you learn > > to view with your heart. > > Personally I love the movie, but "universal love"? > > (From wiki) > > "The Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) is seen moving levers in his home in > space, while the head of Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) is seen floating in the > sky. A spermatozoon-like creature emerges from Spencer's mouth, floating into > the void. > In an industrial cityscape, Spencer walks home with his groceries. He is > stopped outside his apartment by the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall (Judith > Anna Roberts), who informs him that his girlfriend, Mary X (Charlotte > Stewart), has invited him to dinner with her family. Spencer leaves his > groceries in his apartment, which is filled with piles of dirt and dead > vegetation. That night, Spencer visits X's home, conversing awkwardly with > her mother (Jeanne Bates). At the dinner table, he is asked to carve a > chicken that X's talkative father (Allen Joseph) has "made"; the bird moves > and writhes on the plate and gushes blood when cut. After dinner, Spencer is > cornered by X's mother, who tries to kiss him. She tells him that X has had > his child and that the two must marry. X, however, is not sure if what she > bore is a child. > The couple move into Spencer's one-room apartment and begin caring for the > childa swaddled bundle with an inhuman, snakelike face, resembling the > spermatozoon creature seen earlier. The infant refuses all food, crying > incessantly and intolerably. The sound drives X hysterical, and she leaves > Spencer and the child. Spencer attempts to care for the child, and he learns > that it struggles to breathe and has developed painful sores. > Spencer begins experiencing visions, again seeing the Man in the Planet, as > well as the Lady in the Radiator (Laurel Near), who sings to him as she > stomps upon miniature replicas of Spencer's child. After a sexual encounter > with the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, Spencer has another vision, seeing > his own head fall off, revealing a stump underneath that resembles the > child's face. Spencer's head falls from the sky, landing on a street and > breaking open. A boy finds it, bringing it to a pencil factory to be turned > into erasers. Spencer is then seen, in his normal form, in a billowing cloud > of eraser shavings. > Spencer tries to seek out the Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, but she has > begun taking other men home. Crushed, Spencer returns to his room, where the > child is crying. He takes a pair of scissors and for the first time removes > the child's swaddling. It is revealed that the child has no skin; the > bandages held its internal organs together, and they spill apart after the > rags are cut. The child gasps in pain, and Spencer stabs its organs with the > scissors. The wounds gush a thick liquid, covering the child. The power in > the room overloads, causing the lights to flicker; as they flick on and off > the child grows to huge proportions. As the lights burn out completely, the > child's head is replaced by the planet seen at the beginning. The side of the > planet bursts apart, and inside, the Man in the Planet struggles with his > levers, which are now emitting sparks. Spencer is embraced warmly by the Lady > in the Radiator, as both white light and white noise build to a crescendo > before the screen turns black and silent." > > Great and harrowing stuff but I need an explanation about the > universal love.....
I think he said "eternal love" but the description of this movie just sounds like a tripped-out bad dream to me. However, I never saw it so perhaps the wiki synopsis fails to capture the poignancy, the love, the eternal nature of caring that the moving pictures and sound track convey according to Nabby. I'm not about to spend an hour and a half of my life to find out though. >
