Monday, March 28, 2011

Eraserhead - Part 2

So with my time off, I go house shopping for a place to live and get away from the folks.  But Now I have time to continue with Part 2 of the review.
But first, I got to re-watch the first few minutes... again.

(15 minutes of watching and banging my head against the wall later)

IT'S STILL SO SLOW AND STILL NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!  AGAIN!!!

So after another walking scene, we come to the house of Henry's girlfriend's house Mary (played by Charlotte Stewart, and I would make a Tremors joke about this movie, but I just don't care at this point).  We get some awkward talking scenes and we go inside to me the parents, but not before we hear some weird squeaking noises and see a litter of puppies feeding...
They talk... then pause... then talk again... then Mary has a fit and has her hair brushed...
Then the father comes in and starts ranting.  And I got to say personally that the father is so far my favorite character.  Maybe it's because he reminds me of someone...

More awkward scenes happen with grandma and some more long scenes in the kitchen lead to one of the most infamous scenes in the movie, the diner table chicken carving.
Finally, something disturbing to talk about!
Let me quickly describe it as this -
Henry cuts a small chicken, the mother orgasms while the chicken starts moving and bleeding (or crapping, not sure in black of white), and the ladies run out while Henry tries to figure out what the hell is going on... or is that just me? 
Anyway, whatever you do after watching this scene, don't go ordering and Chinese ducks for diner.  Don't ask why but let me just say that I warned you.  See?

Awkward...

At the 30 minute mark, we are finally give the plot (after some more awkward scenes with the mother).  Turns out that Henry and Mary have a extremely premature baby that they have to take care of.  The baby (or rather the repulsive piece of scrotum leftovers of Kermit the frog) is ugly (No! you don't say?), wrapped in bandages while on a pillow, and strangely reminds me of a baby bird without a beak, a alien reject, or Doug Jones in a Hellboy movie. 
Now we have the second problem of the movie... the constant whining (or rather squawking) of this thing... But I'll explain that later.

We see Mary try to feed it for a few minutes while Henry walks around some more... Then he comes home and stares at the heater... and then night time with some more unexplained scenes of Henry doing little things. 
We watch Mary get angry at night with the whining and leave in a rush, saying she just needs a good night sleep and to take care of the baby. 
Henry takes the baby's temperature (with a normal reading) and when he turns around it suddenly has boils, sores, and is gasping for breath.
Pull out the humidifier!\

And then we see... err...  A lady in the radiator with large rock like cheeks shuffle back and forth while stepping on sperm...

...You know what, I'm going to need a few more days again.

To be concluded.

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