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"Eraserhead" is Lynch's fairy tale guide to salvation from the urban Hell. Henry Spencer is a kind of innocent with angelic qualities and so is the Lady in his radiator. But the grimy Man in the Planet disrupts Henry's tranquil existence and dispatches him on a diabolic errand, infecting him with original sin, which Henry conceives in the form of a serpent-like baby. Henry's world is gloomy, loveless, and filled with terror, and dominated by the dehumanized process of mass production. Henry's head, a symbol of his soul, identity, or free will, detached and brought to a pencil factory, in a prophetic dream, is being manipulated by the sinister Man in the Planet to destroy humanity. Part of this scheme is to inflict suffering on women and blame for the misfortunes of humanity. But Henry finds a way by his marvelous Lady who sings about Heaven and inspires him to overcome the Man in the Planet.

10/10
bonsaul@ - 53 reviews
11.5.2002 - age: 50+

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