Eraserhead

i liked this movie. I think it’s so absurd and abstract. On one hand i have no fucking clue what just happened but on the other hand this felt like a movie dealing with the struggles of parenthood, marriage, and insecurity. I love this baby, i think he’s done nothing wrong and it made me sad to hear him cry and scream. I don’t know how no one has any compassion for the baby… Anytime anyone mentions eraserhead they talk about how scary and ugly the baby is, and how they want to kill it. I think if it looked normal everyone would feel bad for it, but since he’s almost scary looking they don’t even view him as something that needs to be protected. It came off to me as a metaphor for having a disabled child and not knowing how to care for it, and even the mom leaving cause she didn’t want to deal with it, so it made me sad to only hear hate for this baby when while i was watching all i could think about is how this baby isn’t even gross? He behaves and acts like a normal baby and sounds like one, he just looks different. This is a highly disturbing film and it made me uncomfortable. I really can’t see how you could understand this film entirely and it definitely is something i want to rewatch. The ending made me cry only because the cries from the baby, and his whimpering in pain made me feel so bad… I just really like this freak i feel so bad for him