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Yeah, to this day he says Eraserhead is his most "spiritual" movie, that it has the most meaning to him of all the others. I can't help but wonder if Eraserhead is one of those movies where it's symbols only have definitive meaning for their maker, you know? It's not a kind of commentary that everyone will pick up on (aside from the occasional symbols regarding characters).
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"When I'm travelling through the Land of Oz in my new Takuro Spirit, I drink Nozz-A-La! It fills me up but never fills me out! It makes me happy to be a man! It makes me know god! It gives me the outlook of an angel and the balls of a tiger! When I drink Nozz-A-La, I say 'Gosh! Ain't I glad to be alive!'"
I watched Eraserhead last night for the first time. It is one of the only Lynch films I had not seen. I felt a little odd after watching it. I gues the parent in me made me feel bad for the baby creature. A few years ago I took film appreciation in college and I wondered why we never watched this. I think it is a remarkable film. It is beautiful and thought provoking, yet very disturbing. When I get a chance I want to get this on DVD. I read someone here saying their interpretation was the struggles of parenthood. I saw it more as an obsession with sex and the consequences that it can create. I will give it another watch soon.
I have to disagree. I don't think it was made with the intentions of being a shock film. I would consider it more of an art house film. I mean yeah I was disturbed by the baby but I wouldn't really think that was Lynch's intentions. I regard him as a remarkable filmmaker. For me there are only 3 that I would consider as remarkable, the other 2 being Stanley Kubrick and Darren Aronofsky. I believe there is a lot of hidden meaning in this film that no one other than Lynch himself will ever know about. He is way too highly regarded as a filmmaker in my opinion to make a film simply for shock value, even if this was his debut.