David Lynch's Eraserhead is a film that not only needs to be watched, it needs to be appreciated.
To me, this film is the closest thing to a nightmare caught on film. The settings, the characters, the mood and atmosphere, everything combines perfectly to create this extraordinary experimental work that many people have grown to love, and hate as well.
Is it a difficult film to get into? Yes. Will a casual viewer be bored to tears? Perhaps, yes.
I love Eraserhead and I consider it Lynch's best work. Not because I like to pretend I'm an artsy person who enjoys weird, obscure stuff. I love this film because I like a film that creates its own atmosphere and makes up its own rules. Eraserhead is nonsensical, oddly-paced and downright strange, but that somehow fits perfectly within the film.
The visuals are creepy, disturbing, and have a very eerie realism to them. I'll say again that it does look like a filmed nightmare. The visuals have that surreal quality enhanced by the characters and the story itself.
I think Eraserhead is a proof of what can be achieved as a filmmaker and how ideas, no matter how messed up, can be translated into the screen with talent.
To me, this film is the closest thing to a nightmare caught on film. The settings, the characters, the mood and atmosphere, everything combines perfectly to create this extraordinary experimental work that many people have grown to love, and hate as well.
Is it a difficult film to get into? Yes. Will a casual viewer be bored to tears? Perhaps, yes.
I love Eraserhead and I consider it Lynch's best work. Not because I like to pretend I'm an artsy person who enjoys weird, obscure stuff. I love this film because I like a film that creates its own atmosphere and makes up its own rules. Eraserhead is nonsensical, oddly-paced and downright strange, but that somehow fits perfectly within the film.
The visuals are creepy, disturbing, and have a very eerie realism to them. I'll say again that it does look like a filmed nightmare. The visuals have that surreal quality enhanced by the characters and the story itself.
I think Eraserhead is a proof of what can be achieved as a filmmaker and how ideas, no matter how messed up, can be translated into the screen with talent.