Review #243: Eraserhead (1977)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #97: Eraserhead (1977) I want to say at the top of this review that I knew nothing whatsoever about this film before watching it, except that it's made by David Lynch (and therefore I assumed it would be very, very weird). It is in fact very weird, but as the movie went on and I actually thought about what Lynch seemed to be trying to say and do, I'm not really sure "weird" is the word I would use to describe it. Watching this film distinctly reminded me of the term "deepity". A deepity is a saying or platitude, that at first seems deep or profound, but to the extent that it's true, it's trivially so; and to the extent that it's profound, it's false. An example is "Age is just a number." If you take it literally, it's so obvious nobody would have ever needed to state it. If you take it metaphorically or instructionally, it's no...