Eraserhead Film Analysis

David Lynch has been filming his debut movie Eraserhead for six years because of the difficulty to fund the production. During this time, Jack Nance, the main actor, was not allowed to cut his hair because of obvious reasons. On the opening night, twenty-five people watched it; it eventually became popular over several runs as midnight movie. Ninety-nine weeks and 7$ dollars. Since its release, the movie gained mixed reviews, called both "a sickening bad-taste exercise" or "murkily pretentious” and a "so consumed with surreal imagery that there are almost limitless possibilities to read personal theories into it" or "by turns beautiful, annoying, funny, exasperating and repellent, but always bristling with a nervous energy" , rating it five stars out of five. Also, in 2004, the film was

The modern indie ideological matrix is not too extreme, but its roots used to pledge entirely for a total rupture from everything that could be associated with the majority: “Nothing is good if other people like it.”
Going forward with the association of the public with the creators, in the film industry indie expresses and owns values that are not associated with Hollywood, becoming a particularity of the main general ideology. I believe group of three A’s that Michael Z. Newman suggests for enclosing the Indie culture (Authenticity, Autonomy, Alternative) is suggestive for the very reason that it manages to include the both perspectives – of the producers and of the consumers -, intertwining the expectations of the public with the creative force of the writers and