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You know? I'm not gonna lie. I thought this was going to be a lot harder to watch than it actually was.

Granted, it's still disturbing, weird, and very, VERY abstract, but I never felt lost while watching it. Everything is in place to be read into and follow along with so long as you're willing to pay close attention to it.

It's a creepy little movie focusing highly on imagery and this weird sounding wind noise always playing in the background, giving the vibe of taking place in a different plane of existence while sorta taking place inside the mind of someone experiencing some form of nightmare.

Yet it never comes off as too hard or too insane…

Marrying early silent film comedy with gnostic body horror, Eraserhead is the sort of movie experience which everyone can probably relate to, even when they wish they could not. If you have been uncomfortable going over to your romantic partner's parents' house for dinner, if you dread the long walk home from the pencil factory, if you feel weird interacting with the neighbor across the hall with whom you would like to have or have had amorous intrigue with, if you would like to escape into the calming sounds emitted by the radiator, if you have just picked the new baby up from the hospital and don't know what to do now that it is really home and sitting on…

Assigning a star rating to this movie would be like grading a Salvador Dali piece with a star rating. It's utterly absurd and simplifies the work to the point of insult. Eraserhead has more in common with a Dali painting than another film at your multiplex, it's a piece of art, not entertainment. I would be more comfortable sitting and watching this in a gallery than a theatre with twelve-dollar popcorn combos.

People constantly wonder what this or that means, but what does it matter? Only the naive ask what a Pollock or Rothko painting is supposed to mean. The important thing is what the piece does to you. How do you respond? Lynch's later works are more like movies…

Definitivamente es la película más rara que he visto nunca. David Lynch en su estado más puro y primitivo. El cine de este autor siempre me recuerda a un problema de matemáticas con ecuaciones complejas, en principio irresoluble porque tienes demasiadas incógnitas, pero en cuanto sabes el valor de una de ellas es posible desmenuzar lo que propone e intentar extraer una idea. Eso sí, encuéntralo. Yo en particular no me gusta dedicarme a "resolver el problema" durante sus películas, sino a disfrutar de sus enormes paranoias y su bizarra creatividad. Digamos que tengo un chip especial para ver el cine del bueno de Lynch. La película es durita en el sentido de que ni de lejos es para todos…