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Cara 2021-12-08 08:01:46


I saw few David Lynch movies. One "Blue Velvet" made me tremble, and the other "The Elephant Man" made my scalp numb. It is said that Mulholland is weird and hard to understand. I didn’t dare to touch it when I put it in the corner. This "Rubber Head" is even more well-deserved. The fragmented and incoherent structure makes me puzzled, but I try to figure out what it is saying. I seem to be a little self-abusing, see. It's not uncomfortable.

From the beginning, this kind of movie set a depressing tone: dim streets, noisy background sounds, flickering elevator room lights, and abnormal people. Almost every scene feels depressing, as for it. What I am talking about, I am always at a loss, vaguely feel that it may be related to sexual imbalance or unethical love. This kind of speculation itself contains my little knowledge of the movie, and the depression after watching it makes it harder for me to dismiss it, so I feel that it is necessary to use the words to mess with the mandarin ducks (the words are often used in this way by me) to relieve my depression. Because of the incoherence, all my guesses are only based on the rough understanding of the movie clips. They are arbitrary and intuitive, without any corroboration and verification. They are all boring pastimes when I am in a panic.

Sex is a beautiful thing, and the main reason why it is beautiful is the beautiful fantasy it caused before and the beautiful aftertaste of it afterwards. If there is no fantasy, or the fantasy is only dirty, or there is a certain period of joyful or depressing experience It makes you unbearable to look back, and your sex is bound to be cold. Sex can be fulfilling, but it is more likely to be emptiness. The more you give, the more it hopes, and it ends up like an endless cavern abyss. The Pinker band asked what to fill up these voids. Turning to sex does not help. Sex may bring temporary fulfillment, but it will not fill the void of the soul. In the final analysis, pure sex brings temporary fulfillment. It's just numbness and forgetfulness of the void. Don't expect to cure both symptoms and root causes. The one who can cure your emptiness and disease is always yourself, love, and the first to show the courage to love and be loved.

The four women in the movie can be regarded as representing three common people’s attitudes towards sex. The first is the cold type. Henry’s wife Mary has been cold to sex since she gave birth to freaks, even to horror. The shaking action of taking the box back to her family's house underneath is her allusion to the bed and place, and it is also her aversion to it. No one is portrayed as sexually cold in the mother's womb. It is bound to be stimulated by some kind of acquired stimulation. It is the freak that stimulates Mary. Obviously, the freak has something else. Why is there a freak is also worth thinking about. Amplify everything that hinders or shadows people's psychology. For example, if you dedicate the first time to someone who loves you, say forever, you put everything in, but in the end you only get deceit. The day after he dumped you, he will be with another woman. Kiss me and me, don't say you don't care, don't care because you don't care to distinguish or distinguish the spirit of Brother Q later-he played you or you played him. Will you be that sure about love next time? Can the blame be attributed to "freaks"? Even more irrational! It doesn't want to appear either. Who is the disgraceful person who is willing to come out to scare people in broad daylight? This has nothing to do with self-esteem, self-confidence, or equality. It is absolutely unfair to someone who is ugly with elephant heads, mouth open, deaf and blind, and full of nostrils.

"Freaks" are like lurking bugs. Once the "conditions" are mature, they can move their muscles and bones. It is not Henry that makes the freak, and it is not Mary, or the love between Henry and Mary, which constitutes a necessary condition at most. What really needs to be cursed is always the "inevitable conditions" created for the appearance of freaks! There seems to be something alluded to in the movie, maybe it is the noise made by industrial civilization, maybe it is the numbness and indifference between people, maybe it is the heating pipe that emits hot air from time to time.

The second type is the hungry and thirst type. People are irrational when they are hungry and thirsty. To be precise, when their sensuality reaches the level of hunger and thirst, reason is as weak and incompetent as they cannot get an erection in front of them, let alone satisfying (in fact, I prefer to believe Reason is worthless in front of sensibility). Like the incest phenomenon between cousins ​​in "The Tin Drum", it is not surprising that the cousin only said that she could not control herself, but she got to the core. I won't go to Jinwo Cangjiao, and won't run into the kiln unfreely. In the movie, Mary's mother, one detail is that she actually puts a mouth and hug into her son-in-law's arms, which has already touched on incest. At first glance, you may feel that this woman is shameless, but when you think about it again, why is there a mother who is so "shameless" to rob a man with her own daughter? I am afraid that her husband can hardly escape this kind of hunger? Mary's mother can probably be regarded as a representative of depression to hunger. On the contrary, the woman who lives opposite Henry, she is slutty and thirsty. Listening to her narrate that she loves her father, this kind of love must be society's Taboos are not ashamed. Wilde said that both gains and losses are tragedies. What's more tragic is that the psychology of perversion due to gains and losses can easily evolve into substitutes for crazy pursuit of gains and losses. In love, you can get more likes. It is inconvenient to seek comfort among all kinds of people, or subconsciously compare all easily available people with unreached people. This unfair result can be imagined. .

Even if there is no complex of Electra and Oedipus, it is not uncommon to see smashed wandering corpses in society, just as abandoned men and women can easily become slaves to freedom and despair.

No one should be blamed. If there is less play in society, less deception, more love, more sincerity, less hunger and coldness.

The dark side of the moon is present in front of us most of the time, but we cannot ignore the bright side of the moon because of this. The third type I call the normal type. In the movie, she is represented by a monotonous and funny dance on the stage and a woman in singing heaven. Of course, there is no evidence or suggestion in the movie that she is sexually normal. She is just stepping on the freak tape, but I would rather take her The object of the trampling is seen as far beyond the abnormal deformity, and each foot is an expression of anger at the root of the pollution stage, forming the root of the freak. I would rather believe that a person who hates such a "freak" cannot be abnormal! It is a pity that she has appeared in the movie for a very short time. The inaccessibility and facial deformity may also be a hint of the hopelessness of a completely normal psychology.

The freak laughed, that was the most ruthless mockery of human beings. The children and beggars were not horrified by the real human heads, but rushed to them. The front desk saw the children carrying their heads and hurriedly called for the leader. Leaders were commonplace. With the children, the heads were sent to the machine room to make the eraser in front of the pencil. The children took it. The money sold to the head seems to be the blood steamed buns bought by Lu Xun for treating tuberculosis. Then the freak stood out from the neck of the shell.

The brain is synonymous with reason, and the money that the brain exchanges for is also a satire of reason and knowledge, and it rubs less and less like an eraser. It is blown by the wind, shaken everywhere, and replaced by the opposite perceptual by-product deformity, good. An absurd picture of perceptual and rational melee.

Looking back at the rumble of the background from beginning to end and the mechanical handle operated by the man on the window sill at the beginning and the end, what is it that makes people separate, confusing, numb, full of so many desires, and utterly rational? Although hopeless, despite no plan, fortunately, the man with abscesses on the window sill is ready to fight. As for whether he will become a mechanical slave in the end, maybe David Lynchito dreams of telling you!

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  • Jeremie 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    It is no longer important whether you can understand the plot of this surreal kult film, what is important is that it is an art. You don't have to deliberately cater to its development, all you have to do is to immerse yourself in it without thinking, and then try your best after reading it, but you can't tell the cause and effect of the whole story, but you still have a fresh memory of some scenes. . Because only you know why.

  • Marvin 2022-04-20 09:01:41

    My problem is that it is easy to feel the pain that other people want to express, ... this movie made me miserable to death. but, a great film!

Eraserhead quotes

  • Mr. X: Mary usually does the carving but tonight since you are our guest, you could do it, Henry. All right with you?

    Henry Spencer: Of course. I'd be happy to. So I just, uh... I just cut them up like regular chickens?

    Mr. X: Sure, just cut them up like regular chickens.

  • Mrs. X: It's Henry, isn't it?

    Henry Spencer: Yes.

    [long pause]

    Mrs. X: Mary tells me you're a very nice fellow. What do you do?

    Henry Spencer: Oh, I'm on vacation now.

    Mrs. X: What *did* you do?