That deformed, mucus-covered, crying baby instantly reminded me of Swan Mayer's The Gluttonous Tree. The ever-expanding appetite of the gluttonous tree makes the whole room pile up with bones, and the constant crying of the deformed baby in this film makes the male protagonist Henry's wife leave him. When the wife left, she tried to take out the suitcase from the bottom of the bed, but the suitcase seemed to be stuck. The wife squatted beside the bed and kept repeating the action of holding the suitcase, looking at Henry with anger and longing, and the bed followed the wife. His movements swayed rhythmically, very much like the state of men and women having sex, and finally the wife finally took out her luggage and rushed out the door. This highly symbolic passage is full of sexual connotations, and the deformed crying child is the fuse of this parting. Perhaps Lynch put the advent of the child and the decline of sexual desire in the same space for implicit and abstract discussions . Then came the sick baby, covered in pustules, lingering with the coquettish prostitute next door, and the dancing girl in white with a tumor on her face. There are several similar surreal scenes in the film, such as when Henry saw the dancing girl in his vision, his head fell off, and then the head of a deformed baby grew from his neck. Another similar passage is that the prostitute next door takes a middle-aged man home, Henry opens the door and looks at the prostitute, but in the prostitute's eyes, Henry's head turns into the head of a deformed baby. The two parallel episodes are full of sexual metaphors, and the deformed baby's neck and head have a phallic texture whenever they grow out of Henry's body. Before that, when Henry was lingering with the prostitute, Henry secretly blocked the mouth of the sick baby so that he could not make a sound, and when the two slowly sank into the water while kissing, the picture gave the prostitute a terrified look in the dark. The expression, she seemed to be frightened, the next meeting was the picture of Henry growing a deformed baby's head, if this represented a diseased penis, it seemed to explain this whole story full of sexual repression. So the head that Henry fell off was a glans? After Henry disemboweled the baby, the baby turned into a huge head, and finally turned into the meteorite-like head that the prostitute had seen before in the panic, and then the head was broken, Henry and the white dancer embraced, Is this cured or is it from the palace? Let Lynch hide the interpretation right to the destruction of the earth...
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