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The infamous, gory eraser head scene deserves particular recognition, because it is the only moment in the film when something happens that we are allowed to predict. A boy runs into a pencil shop holding a decapitated head, and the clerk at the front desk rings a service bell. We foresee that someone will answer the bell, and this realization comes like an alien experience in a film in which unrelated images are tossed at us with calculated incoherence. The scenes payoff, when the head is sawed open and brain matter is used to make erasers, couldnt have been predicted, but for a brief moment when we listen to the service bell ring, we are allowed to assume that it will summon someone who will come through the back door behind the desk. Its the notable exception to the films rule of randomness; it suggests that if human progress destroys us unsystematically, we can at least be assured that when the entrepreneurship bell rings, an opportunist will always rush to its aid, ready to drain man of his mind.
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