I've read about the shaving scene, and how it was based on syd, but why break the blade in two? is it practical or symbolic? or was it just something that came to bob in the moment?
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yea def something unnerving as hell about that moment, then again what part of this movie isnt lol
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I'm guessing it was to make the blade safer to handle.
shareIt seems to me that the obvious point of that scene (the way the shot of the blood dripping into the sink follows) is to make the viewer momentarily believe Pink has cut his wrists.
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well breaking it cut his fingertips, so that didn't make it safer. and people generally cut their wrists in the tub, not standing up at a sink.
I think it's just a practical thing. It's a double-edged razor, and he wants a non-razor-sharp edge to hold onto. Perhaps he's not as whacked out as we thought...
share Of course breaking the blade makes it safer to handle. The point is why take it out of the razor to shave his eyebrows? Leaving the blade in the razor is the safer, more practical approach.
The guy was wigged out, on drugs and losing his grip on reality. With a mind like that, it makes perfect sense: two eyebrows = two razor blades.
He probably came up with that plan after shaving his two nipples.
I don't buy the "hinting suicide" theory as the whole scene revolved around him becoming hairless and fondling his eyebrows as though contemplating that as his next move.
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you can be quite careful whilst being that far out of it - things come in waves and episodes with lapses and calm moments... in any case this part of the movie is open to interpretation as being not really happening IRL but just being how he sees (feels about) things as they happen - you could easily say that the shaving only happens in his head, or you could say that the normal act of preparing himself for a show felt as uncertain and frightening to him as what we are shown...
In many ways this is a film about someone buried in his subconscious and waiting for a gig to begin, getting to the gig by the skin of his teeth and whilst not in a fit state to play, and then having to endure playing the show whilst always questioning why everyone is there.
so - just maybe - he doesn't break the blade: it's just shown to us as so much in this film is - an exaggeration of what is really happening (which could be some surprisingly mundane activities, but made to appear overwhelming, epic and surreal.
Is this the return to Oz?
The grass is dead, the gold is brown
and the sky has claws.
My best bet is... Pink was really a wrestler, and he was getting his gig ready for his Extreme Rules Match with Josef Stalin.
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