Review of Eraserhead (1977) by Beastj18 — 23 Apr 2018

While this may seem like an exercise in the bizarre, with the right analysis and research, it becomes clear and extremely meaningful. Every scene, shot, edit and artistic choice had meaning and were all necessary to tell the story.

As it comes together, the sequences of emptiness and a character that wonders from place to place, start to work together to tell a very deep story of depression, loneliness, suicide, conscience, adulthood, alienation, desire, limitations, fear, paranoia and at the heart of it all, the disgust and regret of becoming a father, that take severe psychological and physical effects on the main character.

This is art. It presents it in the most formalistic and unconventional way, but this only accentuates and intensifies the themes.