Review of Eraserhead (1977) by George I — 20 Oct 2015

The second time I've seen this, and I'm not gonna pretend I know what it's about. The first time (which was within the last few years) I had the creepy feeling that I wasn't watching fiction, which is not the same as believing this is a documentary (those are often a type of fiction as well).

There was a little of that this time, but with more of a sense of watching a dream of someone watching a dream. Aren't dreams fiction? No. Not necessarily. Dreams are often an arrangement of sights, sounds, and (or) sensations that try to make sense of one's current state of being, mentally and most likely physically (it's one machine).

There's a non-linear logic at work, but it's still truth, not fiction.