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Beneath the Skin (2005)
An underrated, excellent mini-series.
I remember this cheering up some dark Sunday nights a few years back. I expected nothing much, but in return found it entertaining, engaging and surprising, and I ended up in a bleak, dark mood; just right for returning to another working week. The acting was brilliant and realistic,the plot was credible: I totally recommend this mini-series. One surprise is that I have just found out it was from a book written by Nicci French, an author recommended to me by my Dutch husband. I have just found a whole row of her books on his bookshelf; all of which have been translated into Dutch. I really do have to now buy and read the English versions.
Eraserhead (1977)
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My interpretation of the plot.
The girlfriend was impregnated by an alien (the worm). The baby was a mutant because it was half sired by the aliens and half by him (Jack Nance). He (Jack Nance) saw the future and his baby(?) (the mutant?) on the stage with the stage lights on her as some sort of fairground freak and public exhibit. He saw her misery and tears. He returned to the present and cut open her swaddling clothes in order to kill her and save her from her future misery. Hence his name, Eraserhead. He was able to erase (rub out) her horrible future. This explains the camera work highlighting the silhouette of his head as a pencil head eraser with all the fibres blowing off as he rubs .... The rest of the stuff on the film is just atmosphere creating and comment on current and future society. That is self explanatory, e.g. the chickens spewing blood is a criticism of modern food being unpalatable and unnatural.