I absolutely love some of Lynch’s work but will openly confess that I have no idea what he was trying to tell me.
Date artsy girl
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disorderly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Klear@piefed.world 2 months ago
You can tell he’s telling you something. That’s enough for me.
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 months ago
Well put. A director that mutes all others in comparison. Plenty of great directors address the audience, Lynch displays it all in such a way as to inexplicably yet certainly speak to you and you alone
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 months ago
imho, it all boils down to two simple things:
- We live inside a dream, but who is the dreamer?
- You can’t go back home.
nul42@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Surrealist art is intended to speak to the subconscious. I have a feeling this is why Lynch didn’t like to explain the meaning of his films. Emotional understanding emphasised over intellectual understanding.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m also a Lynch fan. The only time I really watch his movies is when I have a bad fever. I was sweating through my couch, dying to sip water and binging Twin Peaks. It’s really the only way to watch, I have to say.
Maybe psychedelics? That might be good too.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Movies by David Lynch show the dreams you have when bad stuff happen to you in real life.
nightlily@leminal.space 2 months ago
The man himself said it in Twin Peaks: „Fix your hearts or die“
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
That’s kind of the point.
sundray@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Jokes on you! I pretend to understand your films to get close enough to artsy girls to borrow their clothes!
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eraserhead was his most spiritual film.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Care to elaborate?
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For the longest time I kept getting this confused with the 96 Schwarzenegger flick “Eraser” and kept wondering why people thought that film was so deep.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Eraserhead was certainly my most spiritual film – no other movie has ever made me pray for death.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’m not convinced even David himself understands his films. Feels like a 40 year project of trolling cinemagoers and watching them pretend they understand it.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Sir I think you are mistaken, I enjoy Troma and Cannon
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A man of taste
rabber@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Best director who ever lived. Twin peaks was one of my biggest reasons for relocating to the pnw
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just you and I
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This scene gets my cry-laughing every time. I want to get into a jam session with some people and lure them into doing this without realizing.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Omg that would be amazing. No one in my band watches twin peaks so it would fall on deaf ears but one day I will
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I actually avoid his films like the plague!!!
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 months ago
I would sell my mother into slavery to experience his works for the first time all over again :’)
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My apologies. I have offended your religion
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 months ago
I unironically love his films.
SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
david lynch make a good movie challenge: 99% fail.
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Don’t come at be like this. It’s all I have
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Straight story was about the existential dread of living in an infinite and ultimately meaningless universe that neither knows about or cares about our brief existence
loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Thank yoy for clearing that up. I always thought it was about a man visiting his brother.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jokes on you, I watch Lynch’s Dune to find a partner.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lynch is easy. Refn is hard. I’ve seen Her Private Hell four times now cause a cute girl told me to, and I still have no idea what’s going on beyond “approximately every half hour or so, a girl gets bashed into a window head first and/or her chest torn open, and dies.” It’s got cool neon bullshit though.
The girl is pretty cute too.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I understand that his work makes me feel both mystified, curious, and and a little scared ; that maybe there is some hint of magic in the world and it is dark but alluring.
If someone else appreciates these feelings and wants to share them with me, hell yeah, let’s get together.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In Heaven, everything is fine…
orenj@leminal.space 2 months ago
This. Is a donut.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mostly understood at least the basic points of all of his movies… except Inland Empire. That shit was just impossible to decipher even after re-watching it three times, the third one with pen and paper to try and piece the plot together (cause the Wikipedia plot section is useless at capturing the detail). Honestly I feel like he was just throwing shit at the camera and seeing what doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor. A shame that’s the one he went out on.
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 months ago
WHO DO YOU THINK THAT IS THERE?!
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
Pretend to understand your films? I don’t even know who you are.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s Dan Povenmire, he created the Minions.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s director David Lynch.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
I will research just as soon as I’m done replying….
But you have no idea how little that narrows it down lol