Eraserhead
What. What? What! What‽ what, what. WHAT¡ WhAaaaaaT¿ Whattttttt⸮ Who? How? Why?
Absolutely inscrutable, similar to Pi if it made even less sense.
Knocking up a lady, suffering pressure from her family, the lady moves in with the baby, he cheats on her with the neighbour, he stabs the baby. Those are things that might have happened, I guess. Not completely sure.
Calling the dude from Twin Peaks a “protagonist” is an abuse of language, he’s just in most scenes. And his disembodied head too. Special thanks to Sissy Spacek but she never shows up, is that a future callback to The Straight Story?
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This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.