This movie is the kick up the arse people need, rather than being spoonfed childish, simple movies where the good guy gets the girl and they all live happily ever after, or the pretty explosions give the obtuse cinema going masses the little tingly feeling they love running down their spine due to all the pretty colours and loud noises.
I could watch inception or a similar feeble hollywood attempt at a mind fuck, but i think I'll take my movies with a hint of creativity thank you very much
@JM13121 we make remarks like the ones you dont like as all of the films by Lynch are fucking steaming piles of dog shit Why the fuck does this dog shit on screen deserve any respect? May i suggest Lynch makes some films people with actually watch
why are you people RUINING these clips with your OWN stupid soundtracks. FUCK! I Wanna see clips from the movie...ACTUAL clips....not these clips changed and defiled by stupid music that was NOT in the movie to begin with
i watched this high as shit and damn do i regret. i wanted him to throw the ugly fuck baby out the window the whole time and kill his bitch wife. such a fucking stupid movie there is no god damn deep meaning it's a fucking horribly bad dream gone wrong in ways only someone with manic depression or schizophrenia would have.
@Skeletonwitharaygun I agree 100% I find it hard to believe that there really is any sort of deep meaning or hidden message in this movie. Its just creepy and disturbing. A good movie? yes. A deeper look into the human minds revealing more about our deepest fears and desires? no.
it was good fun going to watch this with friends .getting stoned .i think it was a physcotic episode 1970,s style. i fell in love with that baby .ugly little fuk hahahahahahahaha
@alexkills I was thinkin that too, I've seen the pictures of what Agent Orange has caused successive generations of Vietnamese people who lived in the areas affected by it during the conflict... Although when this movie was released those side effects would have yet to surface and be blamed on the de-foliant chemical... In fact since it took lynch 5 years to film the movie, the vietnam war would have still been being fought as ( the movie ) was in production..
this movie to me symbolizes a man going threw life they way he is meant to not the way he wants, it is symbolizing society. He is an ultimately good character but with new and scary responsibilities i.e marrying with a deformed child. the movie was not a fun watch but it did make me think. It's just not some hyper-surreal movie saying "LOOK AT ME IM ALTERNATIVE".
This is so much like a nightmare i might've had; that's what I like about David Lynch at the same time as it really freaks me out, he captures the human nightmare, but more authentically than any ordinary horror movie, because it's based on things we may've seen in our subconscious. And its eerie! Song fit well btw!!
just watch it again , ull enjoy it , its a truly audio visual masterpiece. especialy the audie , the weird fog of noise which can teleport you right to that room when you close your eyes , its very disturbing and amazing at the same time. rarely im so influenced by a movie. i was afraid the first time i watched it itll be kinda bad trip but i really enjoyed it pretty much. but tbh, i dont have the balls and the stomach to watch it on acid or something :)
What makes this film so amazing is that it ventures into a part of anyones mind that could only be described as "psychotic" or what could be a form of depressive "dementia".
If you wanna see a movie out of the mainstream, try watching Inland Empire. It will blow your mind to pieces. And Lynch directed it as well, it is his most recent film.
David Lynch is too mainstream, he needs to experiment more, stop pandering to the almighty box office - he needs to be more like that guy that directed Mulholland Drive, now that guy is genius....
@unholyimage which is the whole point. i mean, when you hit a bad patch in life, everything becomes so twisted and grotesque that you pray for it to be all just a dream.
I remember having a dream, that in some sense might be considered a nightmare. I was within this large apartment building, making my way to the top by walking on very narrow stairs. The further up I went the more stressed I got, since it was all dark and I could swear I heard things looming in the shadow. The interior of the building was very shabby and decrepit, with walls scraped for paint, and I had the inexplicable feeling of being chased. Made me think alot about Eraserhead when I woke up.
A reply to c0al: I'm surprised you managed to get the vowels right in that dismissive remark. Though I did miss an elaborate "lol wtf noob" or something equivalently impertinent, and perhaps it would have sat better with me had it been capitalised for good measure - albeit that would be too much to ask for from an apparent oaf like yourself. And to finalise this rather lengthy backlash on you, I'd like to conclude that unsavoury words like "care" are more than hackneyed and overused.
A reply to c0al: I know it's hypocrisy at best, but here goes: care.
And judging from the joviality of your last comment, I'd say it almost sounds like you've scored some achievement, which I find wholly discomforting and slightly disturbing. With a slight denotive of generalisation, I trust these are just jolly children's antics?
Be that as it may, you're still but an itching gnat portraying yourself in a haugthy and reckless manner, spewing out foul words in hopes of stirring up some action - which you somewhat managed to do. A half-heartedly kudos to you.
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 7. That shit stuck in my head for 20 some odd years till I saw it again finally. This was really well done friend :)
Man, this video is perfect, you have chosen the perfect song with the perfect scenes 5 stars. this movie is a masterpiece. (for the people who loves this kind of movies, don't miss Begotten, Videodrome or Naked Lunch). bye
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minutes wasted 4 completely... they will never return to me now... eraser had an effect- I'm speaking in an incomprehensible pattern for an incomprehensible purpose...
Regarding to discussion below I would like to say that this movie appeals to me. I'm proud to be in minority. And no, I'am not the artist. Just a simple man with some imagination...
it is the dream-like qualities that inspire (in this film, anyway)
the eeriness of the film's reality underscores the possibility that just beneath the surface, there is something a little sick about human (civilization, society, etc.)
i strongly object to the notion that every work of art has to have quantifiable unambiguous meaning. Maybe it doesn't hit you, maybe it does, but it doesn't ever need to mean something. That would be most tedious and pointless.
I can see how some people can respond to an unusual, unquantifiable film such as this in a positive manner.
Even how it can become a "cult movie" of sorts.
But the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
...
...as you said, some times it "hits you", and sometimes it doesn't.
So I'm guessing that, based on THAT fact right there, there are just as many people out there who didn't appreciate this particular film as there are folks who consider it to be a masterpiece of sorts.
...and if the qualities of this film aren't understood or accepted by at least MOST of the people who've seen it (I'm not saying ALL of them), then what right do certain people who DID find it "significant" have to select it for such an incredible honor?
That's kind of the whole point. You don't have to understand something to enjoy it. That's the universal appeal of art, things don't have to make sense all the time, as long as it makes you feel something profound.
Ok, I get the fact that art can appeal to you in a purely non-logical sense.
But that same type of work of art DOES NOT appeal to a crapload of people.
A lot of folks like art because it means something, because they can understand it.
What did those people say when watching this video, d'you think?
"Wtf?"
That'd be just about it.
So...a film is deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", even though a whole bunch of people are, at best, indifferent towards it?
Ok since you missed the point again ill rephrase it for you. Yes this movie doesn't make sense, and although I don't know what it's trying to communicate, It means something to me. The WTF factor will always be there. A lot of people have no fuckin clue what Salvador Dali's artwork was trying to communicate, but they are still moved by it... see what I mean. Of course it doesn't appeal to a lot of people, but in the art world that doesn't mean a lot. It appealed to enough to gain recognition.
My main argument was that I didn't believe that the people who approved of this film had the sheer numbers necessary to give this movie such an honor, as to include it in the National freaking Treasure movies.
But from what you've told me here, it seems that so long as it "gained recognition in the art world", that's sufficient for such praise.
KypDurron87, This movie is about man, who can't be good father. His girlfriend leave him with a child, because she's not ready to be a mother. This child looks like that only in his imagination, because he's a very problem from him. Girl with a big cheeks , symbolize lucky. She kills fetuses. From him this could be solution, do abortion, if he only could back in time. This movie is amazing.
@IPutASpeIIOnYou i viewed it as a man who was deciding whether or not he will go to heaven if he aborts the baby. even when its suffering/ deformed in a bad neighborhood. hes trying to decide whats right and whats wrong.
@KypDurron87 couple reasons: 1) there's is a lot of meaning, actually: surrealism is like that 2) the meaning can be subjective in a lot of cases, but so what 3) even the question of 'meaning' aside, it's an absolutely amazing experience, atmospherically and aesthetically.
To include it into the National Film Registry, as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" film...you'd think SOMEONE would have to understand it.
Rather than sit there and say "wow, that spoke to me. Not sure HOW, or exactly WHY, but damn did it touch me in ways...unspoken".
Ok then, I'll bite: what does this film mean, to you, personally? What values does it transmit to you, as a viewer? How exactly do you find it both culturally and historically significant?
Whooa! Ease up there, Sparky! I was just playing up the urban legend a bit on that scene with the freak baby! Of course it's damn puppet! Relax and choose your words carefully, little boy!
My theory is that he took a rabbit or something like that and somehow removed all the fur and then covered what was left with some kind of something or other then made it into some kind of "puppet" for the movie. He was into a lot of weird stuff while coming up with this movie when he still lived in Philadelphia. So, it is more than a special effect, mikehoncho00....ya fag.
Yeah, I forgot that Lynch was very interested in "biological oddities" and most likely that baby could have been some kind of critter skinned and rigged to move around. It did kind of look like a hairless rodent head graffed on to a bloated worm body. Thanks for the support! Mikehoncho should remember that in Heaven, everything is fine!
Love the dream/nightmare & fiction/reality blur, and whats more scary than women! they can swing from a dream to a nigtmare in a blink of an eye, this movie takes your mind on a ride.
Nice vid
FutureSauce3000 2 months ago
you added music to it.
skullnkross 3 months ago 2
Wow, that bitch sure has some gnarly cheekbones.
jweightmanmusic 3 months ago
Eraserheads baby is kinda cute :)
marixalilith 4 months ago
Man is that really the name of the song? in where album do I can find it?It's so fucking mesmerizing!!!
DarienMusicJunkie 4 months ago
Film didn't SCARIED me but I was DISTURBED all the time. And it was really a masterpiece
hax0r16 5 months ago
I think it s great- I ll never look at awhole chicken the same way again.David lynch is so unusual.viva la different
skydiver292 6 months ago
This movie is the kick up the arse people need, rather than being spoonfed childish, simple movies where the good guy gets the girl and they all live happily ever after, or the pretty explosions give the obtuse cinema going masses the little tingly feeling they love running down their spine due to all the pretty colours and loud noises.
I could watch inception or a similar feeble hollywood attempt at a mind fuck, but i think I'll take my movies with a hint of creativity thank you very much
bakawak 6 months ago
The whole movie is such a masterpiece!
bathory1234567890 6 months ago
well that just ruined my high
montyu2365 7 months ago
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JM13121 7 months ago
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JM13121 7 months ago
@JM13121 we make remarks like the ones you dont like as all of the films by Lynch are fucking steaming piles of dog shit Why the fuck does this dog shit on screen deserve any respect? May i suggest Lynch makes some films people with actually watch
painsey 6 months ago
and this is why i will NEVER ever do drugs in my entire fucking life!
guardman12345 8 months ago
bad trip
Mrsimaginaryfriend 8 months ago
this is one of my fav movie
MegaDEATHa 8 months ago
this is soo freaky!
seagoonproductions 9 months ago
I'M ELEVEN AND WHAT IS THIS
StovePictures 9 months ago
WTF is this video hah?
MrLigerthetiger 1 year ago
why are you people RUINING these clips with your OWN stupid soundtracks. FUCK! I Wanna see clips from the movie...ACTUAL clips....not these clips changed and defiled by stupid music that was NOT in the movie to begin with
Tarbash7 1 year ago
I'd kill myself if I lived in this movie.
Adultguj 1 year ago 2
i watched this high as shit and damn do i regret. i wanted him to throw the ugly fuck baby out the window the whole time and kill his bitch wife. such a fucking stupid movie there is no god damn deep meaning it's a fucking horribly bad dream gone wrong in ways only someone with manic depression or schizophrenia would have.
NirvZppln94 1 year ago
@NirvZppln94
Agreed.
While the movie was kind of fun.
It's highly overrated.
People always act like they figured out the "deep meaning" of something.
They're seeing shit that isn't there.
"This movie is weird.......it must be amazing and deep then! Im in the know"
Skeletonwitharaygun 11 months ago
@Skeletonwitharaygun I agree 100% I find it hard to believe that there really is any sort of deep meaning or hidden message in this movie. Its just creepy and disturbing. A good movie? yes. A deeper look into the human minds revealing more about our deepest fears and desires? no.
behindXblueXeyez 9 months ago
@behindXblueXeyez maybe or maybe not. there's lots of dark archetypal imagery, symbolism and the like, a synthesis of freud/Jung/Lovecraft/dali
tomcornhole 8 months ago
@tomcornhole that's just a too-explosive mix, you know that right?...
sweetpotatoefish 6 months ago
@sweetpotatoefish i'm diggin' it
tomcornhole 6 months ago
Eraserhead is my new LSD.
Except NOTHING FEELS GOOD NOW
teejayandjon 1 year ago
it was good fun going to watch this with friends .getting stoned .i think it was a physcotic episode 1970,s style. i fell in love with that baby .ugly little fuk hahahahahahahaha
stokey72 1 year ago
Eraserhead was....ummmm. But, I suppose I was glad that I had the experience?? Uh Yeah, I dunno.
sylvergyrl 1 year ago
great!! Fantastic!!
krion1983 1 year ago
harlequin icthyosis anyone?
alexkills 1 year ago
@alexkills I was thinkin that too, I've seen the pictures of what Agent Orange has caused successive generations of Vietnamese people who lived in the areas affected by it during the conflict... Although when this movie was released those side effects would have yet to surface and be blamed on the de-foliant chemical... In fact since it took lynch 5 years to film the movie, the vietnam war would have still been being fought as ( the movie ) was in production..
GodlessMartyr666 10 months ago
What is she stepping on at 2:15 ?
WowVideosbyVessel 1 year ago
Buddha Stalin's CHRONIC!
ThatHauntFreak 1 year ago
To be honest, i don't think there's any deep meaning to this movie, it's just fucked.
mrfrelancekiller 1 year ago
this movie to me symbolizes a man going threw life they way he is meant to not the way he wants, it is symbolizing society. He is an ultimately good character but with new and scary responsibilities i.e marrying with a deformed child. the movie was not a fun watch but it did make me think. It's just not some hyper-surreal movie saying "LOOK AT ME IM ALTERNATIVE".
ttsbf 1 year ago
At 1:20 what is that thing he takes out of the box?
MKWfilms 1 year ago
@MKWfilms o_O looks like a worm to me lol
EliaForce1984ita 10 months ago
i dont want to watch this movie. It would probably fuck up my whole summer.
mokaszin 1 year ago
nice music.. know anything like this?
cxian 1 year ago
hugh hopper of soft machine? fuck yea.
1dotonly 1 year ago
to all those requesting this song: I downloaded it off of soulseek long ago and seem to have misplaced my copy. I'm sure it is out there somewhere.
buddhastalin 1 year ago
@buddhastalin I think its Lullaby by Hughscore from the HighSpot Paradox album
Legolomaniak 8 months ago
@buddhastalin
Lullaby - Hughcore
RundFyrkant 7 months ago
Anywhere I can illegally download this song?
thot4 1 year ago
David L.is a big subject- he puts that jerk Sigmund Freud in his place. Don't critique. Just create a world that casts light and shadow on us all.
hozayamz 1 year ago
Just when I was about to start a sane, proper life without any disturbances did I stumble upon this film.
karolecampesine 1 year ago
did i just trip balls?
aids696969 1 year ago
Strange, very strange. And I Iike it. Beautiful music.
krenakborum 1 year ago
'Eraserhead Dream Sequence' - Dude are you kidding me? The entire movie is like one massive nightmare.
agwoodliffe 1 year ago
look at my vids by peter coukis
toddplum 1 year ago
Gay. Why ruin the movie with this bull shit.
wurtz1987 1 year ago
@wurtz1987 you're suggesting that this movie was ever good?
Chocolatification 1 year ago
When i saw this movie the first time in theaters i was high and holy fucking shit man.
SimplyCoiguy 1 year ago
i gotta watch this movie
kingpothead420 1 year ago
would be cool if you could up this song somewhere...
benchlenov 1 year ago
wait
wat
Hacks98 1 year ago
I hate how horribly realistic and fleshy the baby looks.
matty406 1 year ago 3
What in the fuck.
Lushdarkness 1 year ago
Why do you substitute your soundtrack for the original? You suck, really.
eckerbat 1 year ago
omg, this is fuckin' amazing!
I love this video.
The best fragments from eraserhead + Great music.
IPutASpeIIOnYou 1 year ago
Oh..
llimilea 2 years ago
This is so much like a nightmare i might've had; that's what I like about David Lynch at the same time as it really freaks me out, he captures the human nightmare, but more authentically than any ordinary horror movie, because it's based on things we may've seen in our subconscious. And its eerie! Song fit well btw!!
shattermuse 2 years ago
theres a lot of fear for the child in this film , i think - Am i completely wrong?
RossHildick3D 2 years ago
this movie is beyond trippy, it's just fucked up.
T4rDKnoT666fun 2 years ago 4
This is the closest I've been to having a bad trip without taking anything at all.
SkhizeinAnimus 2 years ago 33
@SkhizeinAnimus
just watch it again , ull enjoy it , its a truly audio visual masterpiece. especialy the audie , the weird fog of noise which can teleport you right to that room when you close your eyes , its very disturbing and amazing at the same time. rarely im so influenced by a movie. i was afraid the first time i watched it itll be kinda bad trip but i really enjoyed it pretty much. but tbh, i dont have the balls and the stomach to watch it on acid or something :)
FCB87 2 years ago
amen to that. anyone find this song yet?
SystemFreaKk13 2 years ago
@SkhizeinAnimus
Then try watching BEGOTTEN, by Elias R. Merhige
remc0s 1 year ago 5
@SkhizeinAnimus
go to cyriak (its a channel on you tube)
narutonut48 1 year ago
What makes this film so amazing is that it ventures into a part of anyones mind that could only be described as "psychotic" or what could be a form of depressive "dementia".
kachzvi 2 years ago
I'm a huge horror fan and have seen all sorts of twisted movies and with that I'll say, Eraserhead has creeped me out the most!
xpurplegrrlx 2 years ago
Why can't I find this song anywhere?
SystemFreaKk13 2 years ago
if you find it let me know!!
shattermuse 2 years ago
Sigh...I guess the age of irony is dead.
LucasSumtimes 2 years ago
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i flagged this vide0o because i dont think it is nice!!
ThisIsHow2Own 2 years ago
In Heaven... everything is fine...
SystemFreaKk13 2 years ago
... What the hell did I just watch?
Arcterion 2 years ago 4
part of a film that should never have been made
SLASHdaROCKER 2 years ago
Lynch did direct Mulholland Drive....
If you wanna see a movie out of the mainstream, try watching Inland Empire. It will blow your mind to pieces. And Lynch directed it as well, it is his most recent film.
psychedelicbluesdiva 2 years ago
David Lynch is too mainstream, he needs to experiment more, stop pandering to the almighty box office - he needs to be more like that guy that directed Mulholland Drive, now that guy is genius....
LucasSumtimes 2 years ago
you're joking??
Vesters1 2 years ago
he DID direct Mulholland!!
limpfnode1 2 years ago
I had a dream about a piano filled with AAAANTTS, AAAANTTTS, AAAAANTS. How distuuuuurbink.
unholyimage 2 years ago
How can you distinguish this as a dream? the whole damn movie is nightmarish
unholyimage 2 years ago 41
@unholyimage Perhaps all we see, and all we seem, is but a dream within a dream.
WAKE UP.
thot4 1 year ago
@thot4 It's just an old sprockets reference. Remember Dieter?
unholyimage 1 year ago
@unholyimage which is the whole point. i mean, when you hit a bad patch in life, everything becomes so twisted and grotesque that you pray for it to be all just a dream.
TheLastHylianTitan 1 year ago
LOL at 1:30
MightyHealthy1 2 years ago
I remember having a dream, that in some sense might be considered a nightmare. I was within this large apartment building, making my way to the top by walking on very narrow stairs. The further up I went the more stressed I got, since it was all dark and I could swear I heard things looming in the shadow. The interior of the building was very shabby and decrepit, with walls scraped for paint, and I had the inexplicable feeling of being chased. Made me think alot about Eraserhead when I woke up.
Entity1490 2 years ago 3
care
c0al 2 years ago
A reply to c0al: I'm surprised you managed to get the vowels right in that dismissive remark. Though I did miss an elaborate "lol wtf noob" or something equivalently impertinent, and perhaps it would have sat better with me had it been capitalised for good measure - albeit that would be too much to ask for from an apparent oaf like yourself. And to finalise this rather lengthy backlash on you, I'd like to conclude that unsavoury words like "care" are more than hackneyed and overused.
Peace.
Entity1490 2 years ago
i've never gotten someone so internet angry with one word before!
c0al 2 years ago
A reply to c0al: I know it's hypocrisy at best, but here goes: care.
And judging from the joviality of your last comment, I'd say it almost sounds like you've scored some achievement, which I find wholly discomforting and slightly disturbing. With a slight denotive of generalisation, I trust these are just jolly children's antics?
Entity1490 2 years ago
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pretentious
c0al 2 years ago
Be that as it may, you're still but an itching gnat portraying yourself in a haugthy and reckless manner, spewing out foul words in hopes of stirring up some action - which you somewhat managed to do. A half-heartedly kudos to you.
Entity1490 2 years ago
Lmfao wtf was with that noob cunt hahahah all u said was care
9kottonmouth9 2 years ago
i thought this would give me nightmares....but i only had a dream about stealing this air compresser thing from my friend to clean my keyboards...
misskill3r 2 years ago
this film will haunt me forever....I'm glad
evanguerra86 2 years ago
This music perfectly goes with the images. Unbelievably good.
kisyz88 2 years ago 2
Lynch is supposedly all anti drug use and is all about meditation.
By the way, he is a great,great director, and this happens to be one of my favourite movies.
psychedelicbluesdiva 2 years ago
David Lynch must have been on some good dope to come out with this shit!
maddkattindustries 2 years ago
What just happened to my life...
WeponOfChoyce 2 years ago 4
What is really scary is that watched the movie and actually understood a whole lot of it.
vampireninja126 2 years ago
I hear ya!! Me too!
patriciathegreat 2 years ago
This is so messed up. .
StillDoll909 2 years ago
WTF?!?!?!?!
That is SO scary!
Whoever made this is messed up!!
o0EmoxMeg0o 2 years ago
David Lynch
sdude456 2 years ago
that movie is so fucking wierd.
hollicrombiex333 2 years ago 3
the correct word is avante garde :)
yutubecop 2 years ago
I saw this movie for the first time when I was 7. That shit stuck in my head for 20 some odd years till I saw it again finally. This was really well done friend :)
superjailwardenlover 2 years ago 2
OMG wtf is in 1:18???
sayatakpunyanama 2 years ago
that...would be a pre-mature baby...
aholeinthewall 2 years ago
BRILLIANT choice of music
fatdawgpeet 2 years ago 11
thanks man
buddhastalin 2 years ago
Buddha Stalin's got the skills to pay da bills!
quornholio 2 years ago 3
03:58 yummy!
skeetzo 2 years ago
"you look just like the baby from eraserhead"
the dead kennedys
theebadnun 2 years ago 3
this movie makes me feel weird.
theblitz8 2 years ago 5
5 stars all the way!! thank you soo much for the cut of the movie and the music, it was truly a great appreciation of the film.
qchpffff 2 years ago 2
i like hugh
nophil 2 years ago
Man, this video is perfect, you have chosen the perfect song with the perfect scenes 5 stars. this movie is a masterpiece. (for the people who loves this kind of movies, don't miss Begotten, Videodrome or Naked Lunch). bye
8Maik 2 years ago 3
oh, i forgot, in wich Hooper's album is this song?
8Maik 2 years ago
Seen Holy Mountain or El topo?
utc9 2 years ago
I saw holy mountain 2 years ago and it's great. Just finished to see El Topo and it's crazy.
8Maik 2 years ago
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minutes wasted 4 completely... they will never return to me now... eraser had an effect- I'm speaking in an incomprehensible pattern for an incomprehensible purpose...
streetmirage 2 years ago
the music is lullably from the album highspotparadox and I put together this video all by lonesome.
buddhastalin 2 years ago
is this music in the film or did someone add it here? and what is the music?
muzakaly 2 years ago
what´s that music?
nolito89 2 years ago
faszinierend
efaelka 2 years ago
fucking crazy i love it
ehfucku 2 years ago
what a great movie. there's nothing to "get". just 90 minutes of madness
symbal777 2 years ago 3
Regarding to discussion below I would like to say that this movie appeals to me. I'm proud to be in minority. And no, I'am not the artist. Just a simple man with some imagination...
Bell1970 2 years ago 6
Question: why is it that people love this movie so much, if it's pretty much physically impossible to understand the metaphors involved in it?
Like, the dream sequenc.
People describe it as "Timeless". "Pure genius". "Breath-taking".
...but...why?
You don't even know what it MEANS. It's like a drug-induced dream of Lynch's...which should only have meaning for HIM.
How could OTHER people possibly understand this? Or even presume to love it...?
KypDurron87 2 years ago 3
it is the dream-like qualities that inspire (in this film, anyway)
the eeriness of the film's reality underscores the possibility that just beneath the surface, there is something a little sick about human (civilization, society, etc.)
brevity7 2 years ago 4
you don't need to understand something to love it. Its a piece of surreal art.
demockracy 2 years ago 6
what they said ^
buddhastalin 2 years ago
i strongly object to the notion that every work of art has to have quantifiable unambiguous meaning. Maybe it doesn't hit you, maybe it does, but it doesn't ever need to mean something. That would be most tedious and pointless.
sempriniwalrus 2 years ago 5
Ok. I can understand that kind of concept.
I can see how some people can respond to an unusual, unquantifiable film such as this in a positive manner.
Even how it can become a "cult movie" of sorts.
But the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
...
...as you said, some times it "hits you", and sometimes it doesn't.
KypDurron87 2 years ago
So I'm guessing that, based on THAT fact right there, there are just as many people out there who didn't appreciate this particular film as there are folks who consider it to be a masterpiece of sorts.
...and if the qualities of this film aren't understood or accepted by at least MOST of the people who've seen it (I'm not saying ALL of them), then what right do certain people who DID find it "significant" have to select it for such an incredible honor?
KypDurron87 2 years ago
That's kind of the whole point. You don't have to understand something to enjoy it. That's the universal appeal of art, things don't have to make sense all the time, as long as it makes you feel something profound.
TheFragile89 2 years ago 3
Argh.
Ok, I get the fact that art can appeal to you in a purely non-logical sense.
But that same type of work of art DOES NOT appeal to a crapload of people.
A lot of folks like art because it means something, because they can understand it.
What did those people say when watching this video, d'you think?
"Wtf?"
That'd be just about it.
So...a film is deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", even though a whole bunch of people are, at best, indifferent towards it?
KypDurron87 2 years ago
Ok since you missed the point again ill rephrase it for you. Yes this movie doesn't make sense, and although I don't know what it's trying to communicate, It means something to me. The WTF factor will always be there. A lot of people have no fuckin clue what Salvador Dali's artwork was trying to communicate, but they are still moved by it... see what I mean. Of course it doesn't appeal to a lot of people, but in the art world that doesn't mean a lot. It appealed to enough to gain recognition.
TheFragile89 2 years ago
Ok, I think I get it now.
My main argument was that I didn't believe that the people who approved of this film had the sheer numbers necessary to give this movie such an honor, as to include it in the National freaking Treasure movies.
But from what you've told me here, it seems that so long as it "gained recognition in the art world", that's sufficient for such praise.
I guess I'll just have to live with that.
KypDurron87 2 years ago
KypDurron87, This movie is about man, who can't be good father. His girlfriend leave him with a child, because she's not ready to be a mother. This child looks like that only in his imagination, because he's a very problem from him. Girl with a big cheeks , symbolize lucky. She kills fetuses. From him this could be solution, do abortion, if he only could back in time. This movie is amazing.
IPutASpeIIOnYou 1 year ago 3
Thanks for clearing it up somewhat for me, appreciate it.
KypDurron87 1 year ago
@IPutASpeIIOnYou i viewed it as a man who was deciding whether or not he will go to heaven if he aborts the baby. even when its suffering/ deformed in a bad neighborhood. hes trying to decide whats right and whats wrong.
doublexnchuck 1 year ago 4
@KypDurron87 couple reasons: 1) there's is a lot of meaning, actually: surrealism is like that 2) the meaning can be subjective in a lot of cases, but so what 3) even the question of 'meaning' aside, it's an absolutely amazing experience, atmospherically and aesthetically.
Hirfel 1 year ago
@KypDurron87 why do you have to understand something to love it?
brendanpr21 1 year ago
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To include it into the National Film Registry, as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" film...you'd think SOMEONE would have to understand it.
Rather than sit there and say "wow, that spoke to me. Not sure HOW, or exactly WHY, but damn did it touch me in ways...unspoken".
KypDurron87 1 year ago
@KypDurron87 No, YOU would think someone has to understand it. Most of us know that art is subjective
brendanpr21 1 year ago
@brendanpr21
Subjective.
Ok then, I'll bite: what does this film mean, to you, personally? What values does it transmit to you, as a viewer? How exactly do you find it both culturally and historically significant?
KypDurron87 1 year ago
@KypDurron87 I think thats the point?
rynhll 1 year ago
I really like this song. It fits well.
Dillpj66083 3 years ago
thankyoukindly
buddhastalin 3 years ago
wheres butthead? we already clearly have beavis xD
Ryadriz 3 years ago 3
I'm glad my video is causing such a lively debate on the webinet.
buddhastalin 3 years ago
Gran bel film...ha delle carrellate oniriche da brivido!!
gianfrancomt 3 years ago
Tell ya what kids, that freak baby was not a special effect puppet! Lynch will never give away the secret but it was more real then you think! ;)
Starhawk73 3 years ago 5
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uuhhhh, its a puppet... even if its made of biological material its still a puppet, fuck off....
mikehoncho00 3 years ago
Whooa! Ease up there, Sparky! I was just playing up the urban legend a bit on that scene with the freak baby! Of course it's damn puppet! Relax and choose your words carefully, little boy!
Starhawk73 3 years ago 3
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Then dont say its more than a special effect when its not, fag.
mikehoncho00 3 years ago
Alright then! Ass monkey! I was trying to be nice to you, moron! I guess that was wasted on you! Relax and try to enjoy life!
Starhawk73 3 years ago 3
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Blah blah, shut the fuck up already, before you make yourself look like more of a dumbass... If that is even possible
mikehoncho00 3 years ago
lol. those youtubers!
misterbuckethead 3 years ago
I heard it was a midget in a suit...
AstralienX 3 years ago 3
Actually, watching the movie and paying attention to the baby scene, that is just a clever puppet but what a freaky thing! Nasty!
I was just trying to stir up a bit of friendly debate, Mike is being a pud wacker, as usual!! Thanks for the support!
Starhawk73 3 years ago
My theory is that he took a rabbit or something like that and somehow removed all the fur and then covered what was left with some kind of something or other then made it into some kind of "puppet" for the movie. He was into a lot of weird stuff while coming up with this movie when he still lived in Philadelphia. So, it is more than a special effect, mikehoncho00....ya fag.
potaluca 3 years ago
Yeah, I forgot that Lynch was very interested in "biological oddities" and most likely that baby could have been some kind of critter skinned and rigged to move around. It did kind of look like a hairless rodent head graffed on to a bloated worm body. Thanks for the support! Mikehoncho should remember that in Heaven, everything is fine!
Starhawk73 3 years ago
the baby was a cow fetus
spameister2 3 years ago
Love the dream/nightmare & fiction/reality blur, and whats more scary than women! they can swing from a dream to a nigtmare in a blink of an eye, this movie takes your mind on a ride.
AstralienX 3 years ago
Mad song too, nice bass line n percusions
KICTASS 3 years ago
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at 2:56 is that a turd?
and btw, that was the gayest thing i've ever seen
SavedByGraceAdam 3 years ago
Yep, its a turd. Moron.
babyduck1 3 years ago
Kind of like the turd your mom popped out 17 years ago.
SavedByGraceAdam 3 years ago
i dont know why the movie is as scary as it is... i feel like i dont know if its funny or serious.
warlockboyburns 3 years ago
idk why this video and music work so nicely but wow
dookiebl 3 years ago
"David Lynch would frown upon this". Shit, i forgot your really good pals with David. You fucking knob. Great track Buddha
thejanitor1981 3 years ago