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The strange representation of "inverted ladder head"
Jefferey 2022-03-23 09:01:55
I don't know if Cohen's "Barton Funk" is a tribute to David Lynch. Whether it is from the wooden close-up portrait poster or the eye-catching "upside-down ladder head" on the poster, it is astonishingly similar to "Eraser Head". similar. It's just that Cohen's protagonist wears John Lennon-like eyes in order to match his professional characteristics, while Lynch's protagonist puts a row of pens in his suit pocket in a serious manner. The narrative plot points of "Eraser Head" are very scattered, and every shot that can render a strange environment and black space is infinitely expanded and expressive, so the timeline of the movie is stretched very long, and several of the plot points are The scale is also easy to outline: a good guy with a dull appearance; a girlfriend who has tics and keeps crying and yelling; his girlfriend's also sick mother (who sexually molested him for the first time); his girlfriend's weird father is bloody; a A vegetative grandmother; a deformed child after marriage. His wife ran away from home because he couldn't bear it, so he finally dismembered his own flesh and blood, and then ascended to heaven to be with the woman with a face full of pustules that he had always fantasized about. Step by step, the film is linked with Surrealist representations: representations of dreams, hallucinations, fantasies, subconscious secrecy, perversions, stimuli, anomalies, and Freud-influenced. It seems that the black and grotesque traces of Brodon and Dulac can be traced in Lynch's works, but unlike the early surrealism, Lynch's story is slightly clearer, and there are dirty and disgusting liquids in the middle. In the splattered shots, in the flat and sharp dialogue of the characters, Lynch used the ugly reality to graft the uglier dream to comfort the heart, just like the visual stimulation when the protagonist killed the flesh and blood at the end of the movie, and the paradise that followed The "Broken Embrace." Maybe this film, known as "the greatest Virgo after Citizen Kane", not only created a Lynch style, but also opened the Lynch style "going in a dream." The untold evil thoughts of death".
Extended Reading
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[last lines]
Pencil Machine Operator: It's okay!
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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!