It is easy to put the signature marks of the director's later works in this debut work, including the obsession with sex and the fear of reproduction and family, the meta-contrast between reality and dreams, the presentation of deformed bodies and the madness of human nature. The protagonist Jack Nance's signature explosive head and scowl run through the entire film. In this post-industrial surreal world, he impregnates his girlfriend and gives birth to a deformed baby. Pushed into madness, its disgusting level is probably approaching the limit that the audience can bear.
This taciturn film may be directly changed into a silent film. The scenes are mostly in the protagonist's room, and through different lighting and lenses in the dark light, many surrealistic illusions of visualism are created. There's also the theater of dreams, deformed dancing girls, and elusive eraser heads. This may be a lonely fantasy created by a repressed man. I read Tang Mo's article before and learned that this film is also a well-known cult film, sharing the loneliness in the dark with the audience at the midnight movie screening, maybe This is the indescribable charm of this film.
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