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Film
Eraserhead
Starring John Nance
Directed by David Lynch
Bijou Theatre
Perhaps no other film has
such a grotesque, yet haunt
ingly intriguing appeal as the
cult film Eraserhead.
The force behind this ex
traordinary film lies in the ar
tistry of writer, director and
producer David Lynch. Lynch,
whose recent film The Elephant
Man won national acclaim, dis
plays deft form in Eraserhead by
creating a penetrating explora
tion into the psychological hor
rors of a malformed and de
praved society.
The outcome is nothing less
than bizarre.
The plot revolves around the
dolorous — almost farcical
character — of Henry (John
Nance), a schizoid factory
worker who’s helplessly
powered by the levers of indus
trial society. Unable to cope
with his futile existence, Henry
plods aimlessly on earthen
mounds in the shadows of an
industrial park. His sorrowful
condition is accented by a tuft
ed pompador which sprouts
from his head like an electrically
charged balloon.
The story evolves when Henry
appears at his girlfriend Mary’s
(Charlotte Stewart) house for
dinner where he meets Mary's
family, a gross collection of
withered zombies living in the
backyard lot of a squalid train
yard
Bill, Mary's father, is an ex
factory worker, laid-off work
because of an arm injury He
engages Henry in one of the
film's more revealing dialogues:
"Well, what do you know,
Henry?"
"I don't know much of anyth
ing."
As dinner progresses, reality
dissimulates and disappears in
to the grossly absurd. Henry
ends up married to Mary and
finds himself the proud father of
a premature baby.
Unlike most infants, however,
Henry’s child is anything but an
adorable new babe. Rather, it is
an undiscernable creatural
form, covered by a gelatinous
membrane, and swathed in
cloth up to its worm-like neck.
Placed prone on a table, its
malformed head propped by a
pillow, it displays an amazing
prowess to cry, chatter and
goob.
Undaunted, Henry and Mary
care for the tyke — until, un
nerved by its incessant wailing,
Mary leaves for the peace and
quiet of her parents’ home.
His world melting around him,
Henry descends into the con
fines of his unfettered mind,
attempting to grasp the elusive
controls which power his life.
But, Henry is unable to avoid
the socio-industrial ills which
plague his existence. And
shortly, his head, dismembered
from his body, rolls into the
hands of a boy who sells it to a
factory. At the factory, Henry's
head is run through a machine
and stamped into pencils with
perfunctory precision.
Eraserhead is not a moving
drama, nor a gripping thriller —
rather, it is a psychological
sojourn through the cluttered
remnants of a fragmented mind.
The plot, often abstruse and
comically absurd, offers the
viewer plenty of space to turn,
twist and ponder Lynch’s un
dermining theme — a theme
prevalent in many expressions
of art — which alludes to the
human condition as striving for
one’s peach-of-mind: that
"heaven on earth."
A low budget production,
Eraserhead is a high-quality ar
tistic achievement. Filmed in
black and white, the movie pre
sents a visual abstraction of the
mass industrial state.
Gray cement walls, empty
train lots and endless tracks of
smoldering factories present a
stirring perceptual image
reminiscent of war-time Ger
many on a gray, rainy day.
Lynch demonstrates his
proficiency in the special effects
department and equals his
realistic accomplishments on
The Elephant Man set. When
Henry slips into a catatonic
state, the screen responds with
a stirring display of phantas
magoric images: a progression
al transendence from the real to
the mind-boggling absurd.
These surreal illusions are off
set by the penetrating clangs,
roars and blasts from an am
plified factory boiler.
Eraserhead is a delicious
stray from the ordinary. Its
audio-visual effects offer an en
grossing sensory experience.
Produced in 1977 on an
American Film Institute Grant,
Eraserhead is Lynch’s first full
length feature film.
The film is currently playing at
the Bijou Theatre. Showtimes
are Midnight, Thursday through
Saturday; matinees on Sunday
at 2 and 4 p.m.
By James Jiier
HEART THROBS
20 words for $1.50 if placed by 1 pm
Feb. 12 at the ODE office (300 EMU),
UO Bookstore, EMU Main Desk.
Great Throbs from the Past:
JANET:
Your hair, your lips, your dreamy eyes
Such beauty fashion can t disguise
And on your thighs I'd love to dine
Won't you be my Valentine?
CIA
PHILBERT: Why don't we get together this
Valentine's Day and aim your arrow for my
target Hopelessly in love with you
PEANUT
LIL UPTURN:
Like the wind through the trees
Your love makes me shake
But everytime I tell you so
Your head begins to ache
USA:
Roses are blue,
Violet are red
My back is cramped,
Fix your bed
Love. JOHN
JIMMY:
How bout some hot sauce on a cold winter
night?
SUE