The story is very simple. It is the story of a blue-collar worker and his girlfriend who gave birth to a premature geek who was overwhelmed and killed the geek. The core of the story is pressure. The male protagonist is finally overwhelmed by the multiple physical pressures of his wife's parents, wife, and freak, and kills his son by himself.
But simple stories have not simple expressions. First of all, Lynch's use of background sound is superb. The size of the noise completely represents the change of the male protagonist's mentality. When the white-haired girl sings, it may be the time when the male protagonist feels the most comfortable.
Second, all the pictures in the film are presented after being filtered from the perspective of the male protagonist. The strange performance of the wife's family is actually the embodiment of the male protagonist's inner pressure, and several details in the male protagonist's house (no potted plants, a broken record player, the wall outside the window) may represent that the male protagonist does not communicate much with the outside world and is informal and other characteristics. The most exciting part should be the male protagonist's dream, which should have started when his wife left. The first paragraph of the dream is that the freak is sick, the male protagonist is subconsciously afraid of this situation, and feels that the freak limits his freedom, but his sense of responsibility is still there, and he is not allowed to abandon it. The song and dance gave birth to the idea of killing freaks. Then the second part of the dream is the wife at the bedside. The wife's grinding teeth and rubbing her eyes indicate the pressure caused by the wife's attitude, and the wife's whole body is bound in a sleeping bag, indicating that they lack sex. At this time, the male protagonist will be dissatisfied with his wife. Attributed to the geek. The third part is the arrival of the female neighbor. Because he has not had a new life with his wife for a long time, the male protagonist is eager to have sex, and the beautiful female neighbor next door has become his yy object, and he subconsciously thinks that the rubber head has become an obstacle again. The fourth part is somewhat similar to automatic writing. The male protagonist's dissatisfaction with the freaks exploded to the extreme, and he came to the conclusion that the freaks might ruin his life. Then the dream woke up, the female neighbor was the last straw to live with others, and the male protagonist finally hit the killer.
In my understanding, the monster man on the moon refers to the male protagonist's negative emotions, and the white-haired woman refers to the male protagonist's positive emotions. The first time the monster man appeared was when Rubberhead was born, the male protagonist fell into panic and fear, and the other time was when the male protagonist just killed Rubberhead, showing the guilt in the male protagonist's heart. The first time the white-haired girl appeared was when the male protagonist had the idea of killing monsters, the second time was when the male protagonist had sex with the neighbors in his dream, and the last time was after killing the monster, implying the male protagonist's inner liberation.
In addition, the freak is called the rubber head, the head is big and the body is like a sperm, it seems to be associated with sex. And the rubber head has been bound in bandages, perhaps what Lynch wants to express is that sexual restraint is the source of trouble? I'm not so sure about that.
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