I have always liked this movie. It gets better with repeat viewings, although I haven't seen it for several years. I don't know how many times you've seen it, but your review treats it as a straight zombie-flick. I thought the same thing when I first saw it. Zombies are just the hook to hang the ideas on. It contains a lot of mixed up symbols. At times I think the director was just adding them in so that pattern recognition would kick in and people would think it was deep. Here's my take: The Cemetery is death. The man's life is spent in a pointless service to death. The woman represents his attempts to escape death. Each incarnation represents a different way for him to escape. Where Shakespeare saw children as a path to immortality, the Cemetery Man's inability to prove his virility to the town means that there will be no children, hence no escape from death on that front. His failures to escape death through love, procreation, etc lead him to the incarnation that is terrified of penises. He asks a doctor to remove it. This represents the celibate life of a holy man, but in this he again fails to transcend death.
As he fails again and again, he can no longer tell the difference between life and death and starts shooting the living.
It's his time to move on. He gets in his bug and starts driving away. here is the near death experience. He enters the tunnel. It' getting darker. suddenly a blinding light at the end of the tunnel.
There is no escape from death.
His retarded sidekick is CM's inner child. His love for the head in the TV, shows his view. He does not fear death. To him it is a sad and silly part of reality. In the end, when CM's escape attempts finally leave him speechless, the sidekick finally has words. Take me home.
That would require two things. 1: Time: I don't have a lot right now until semester ends in December 2: I would need to watch the movie again. Like I said, it's been a few years. 3: the ability to count.
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I don't know how many times you've seen it, but your review treats it as a straight zombie-flick. I thought the same thing when I first saw it.
Zombies are just the hook to hang the ideas on. It contains a lot of mixed up symbols. At times I think the director was just adding them in so that pattern recognition would kick in and people would think it was deep.
Here's my take:
The Cemetery is death. The man's life is spent in a pointless service to death.
The woman represents his attempts to escape death. Each incarnation represents a different way for him to escape.
Where Shakespeare saw children as a path to immortality, the Cemetery Man's inability to prove his virility to the town means that there will be no children, hence no escape from death on that front.
His failures to escape death through love, procreation, etc lead him to the incarnation that is terrified of penises. He asks a doctor to remove it. This represents the celibate life of a holy man, but in this he again fails to transcend death.
As he fails again and again, he can no longer tell the difference between life and death and starts shooting the living.
It's his time to move on. He gets in his bug and starts driving away. here is the near death experience. He enters the tunnel. It' getting darker. suddenly a blinding light at the end of the tunnel.
There is no escape from death.
His retarded sidekick is CM's inner child. His love for the head in the TV, shows his view. He does not fear death. To him it is a sad and silly part of reality. In the end, when CM's escape attempts finally leave him speechless, the sidekick finally has words. Take me home.