Sunday, September 1, 2019

Double Feature: The Horror of Responsibility - Eraserhead (1977) & Midsommar (2019)

The films are surreal domestic drama horror-comedies directed by AFI scholars centering around the dissolution of an unhealthy relationship as the result of the male protagonist's refusal to accept responsibility and face adulthood, embracing fatalism and hedonism, all the while the world around them proving isolating vacuums, simultaneously grotesque and hilarious in their absurdity and hostility.

They feature deformed children, deceptively happy endings for their protagonists, and similar executions to their finales (haunting crescendos before sudden stops)

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