Is the baby a reflection of the spirit of the male protagonist?

Christiana 2022-03-21 09:01:55

First of all, when the male protagonist is cutting the roast chicken, the female protagonist's mother seems to be at the "peak", and a little bit like giving birth, maybe both? After that, the mother started to cry (ashamed because of incest?), plus she asked if the male protagonist had grown out of time with the female protagonist, and she kissed the male protagonist directly. Could the baby be a deformed product between the male protagonist and the mother-in-law? , or that the baby is born from the deformed and painful spiritual world of the male protagonist

We regard the movie as a dream, the male protagonist may never really have an affair with anyone, his desires and pain are intertwined, and he transforms into a deformed baby, the baby is actually another him (the male protagonist wants to find a female neighbor When making fun, the baby stops him, and finally the male protagonist sees the female neighbor with someone else, and the baby is laughing at him again). The male protagonist turns into a monster head twice in the movie. The first time is when the original head falls off and another small head replaces it. The second time is when he looks awkwardly at the female neighbor embracing another man. He's a monster head from the perspective (it's very short); the only time the man next to the joystick at the end of the movie has his face illuminated, and looking at his pustular skin and weird mouth, I immediately thought if he would It's a grown-up baby (maybe age and appearance don't make sense, because it's always part of the male protagonist).

The male protagonist killed the baby in the last pain, in fact he killed himself, and finally the male protagonist hugged the singer and ascended to heaven.

ps: My analysis is very one-sided and many other plots are ignored.

That singer looks like two gao pills on her face, looking at her posture and hair, it's really an abstract diao

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Eraserhead quotes

  • [last lines]

    Pencil Machine Operator: It's okay!

  • Mary X: [to the crying baby] Shut up!

    [Baby continues to cry]

    Mary X: I can't take it anymore! I'm going home!

    Henry Spencer: What are you talking about?

    Mary X: All I need is a decent night's sleep!

    Henry Spencer: Why don't you just stay home?

    Mary X: I'll do what I want to do! And you better take real good care of things while I'm gone!