I just finished my second director research paper this semester for my Moving Image Arts class on David Lynch. So I've decided to share with my (very) short synopsis of one one of his well-known films and a link to the film itself: "Eraserhead".
“Eraserhead” follows the intensely bizarre perspective of on man's surrealist nightmare. The film is set in the post-apocalyptic society of an industrial world where all apartment buildings seem practically abandoned and lighting fixtures always flicker on and off. We follow Henry Spencer as he attempts to cope with his soon-to-be-wife, her crazed parents, his radiator, and a beautiful woman next door.
After his girlfriend, Mary X, unexpectedly gives an early birth to their deformed mutant child, Henry is obliged to marry her. However, after Mary moves into Henry's apartment, their baby continues to cry uncontrollably and Mary flees in horror; leaving Henry alone to be consumed by insanity, masturbation worms, the want to kill, and the seduction of the “beautiful girl across the hall”.
