David Lynch DEAD (1 Viewer)

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Why did you go, why did you turn away from me?
When all the world seemed to sing
Why, why did you go? Was it me? Was it you?
Questions in a world of blue
 
At the height of my teenage cinephilia I became hell-bent on bludgeoning everyone else's way of seeing into a manner similar to my own and figured that contemporary English-language films were the best way to do this. To that end, I once forced all my uni housemates to endure a screening of Mulholland Drive in our front room. It concluded with me sat on the sofa sobbing hysterically while the rest of them looked on aghast at both the perceived nonsense they'd just witnessed as well as my overly-impassioned reaction to it.

I guess I wanted them to understand the pain of existing; the gossamer line that separates utopian fantasies from the nightmare that is reality; that tragedy is something that's always ready to consume us wholly dare we make a misstep. Shoulda got them all high beforehand, eh.

Blue Velvet was another revelation for me. I grew up in a bourgeois haven that looked cute on postcards - yet my experience of it was that the worst kind of cruelties and grotesqueries lurked within its hidden caverns. Hidden only because people were too wilfully-myopic to see what was around them. I guess many have similar experiences based on how beloved the film is, but I was so young and impressionable when I first saw it and it kinda tore my world apart and put it back together again and I loved it for doing that.

Lynch's best work made me feel very, very seen. Barmy old eccentrics are my kinda people regardless, but rarely do they convey the many intangibles of this fucked up life as kaleidoscopically and intensely as he did. I love art that defies logic, that demands a complete surrender to all that's visceral, that forces us to feel instead of rationalise. If that doesn't exemplify how to live then I don't know what does.

I'm so grateful that he existed.
 
I was in a hostel in San Diego when I first watched Mulholland Drive. I put it on in the communal TV room and one by one people just stormed out :D
 
A friend of mine watched Mulholland Drive with her bf a few months ago and she said they were into it but got tired around the Club Silencio scene, so they turned it off and then just never resumed watching it?! These people are sick
 
David Lynch Ranking (too soon?)

1. The Elephant Man (10/10)
2. Blue Velvet (9.5/10)
3. Mulholland Drive (9.5/10)
4. Eraserhead (I didn't really enjoy it)

That's all I've seen though. Maybe I'll watch Wild at Heart or Lost Highway or Inland Empire today in honor
 
Even as a fan, Inland Empire is... an ordeal. Maybe save that till last :D

I'd recommend Wild at Heart, which has a relatively straightforward narrative by Lynch standards and contains some truly iconic performances.

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Yes, Wild at Heart is definitely some of his most accessible work. You can watch it on YouTube:

 

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