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[–] xkbx@startrek.website 50 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Mullholand Drive was about two hot lesbians kissing. Dune was about Kyle MacLachlin trying to figure out a mystery through dreams. Twin Peaks was about Kyle MacLachlin becoming an oppressive tyrant with his newfound powers while consuming a beloved, addictive substance. What’s so hard to get about that?

[–] EfficientEffigy@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Lost highway is about Trent Reznor producing an amazing soundtrack.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago

Inland empire is about 3 hours long

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Blue Velvet was about not fucking looking at Dennis Hopper.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Eraserhead is about the challenges of having a child.

[–] nul42@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

The Elephant Man is about a man who who was known as the elephant man.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also, the superiority of Pabst Blue Ribbon when compared to Heineken.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Twin Peaks was about Kyle MacLachlin becoming an oppressive tyrant with his newfound powers while consuming a beloved, addictive substance.

Damn good coffee.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mulholland Drive had a coherent story. The first half was Naomi Watts’ character’s dream.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Right, now explain blue velvet.

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[–] Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Pretend to understand your films? I don't even know who you are.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

That's Dan Povenmire, he created the Minions.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (9 children)

It's director David Lynch.

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[–] disorderly@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I absolutely love some of Lynch's work but will openly confess that I have no idea what he was trying to tell me.

[–] Klear@piefed.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can tell he's telling you something. That's enough for me.

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 10 points 3 days ago

imho, it all boils down to two simple things:

  1. We live inside a dream, but who is the dreamer?
  2. You can't go back home.
[–] nul42@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days 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 3 points 2 days 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 3 points 3 days ago

Movies by David Lynch show the dreams you have when bad stuff happen to you in real life.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days 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.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 11 points 3 days ago

Jokes on you! I pretend to understand your films to get close enough to artsy girls to borrow their clothes!

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Eraserhead was his most spiritual film.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.

Eraserhead was certainly my most spiritual film -- no other movie has ever made me pray for death.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Best director who ever lived. Twin peaks was one of my biggest reasons for relocating to the pnw

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sir I think you are mistaken, I enjoy Troma and Cannon

[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

A man of taste

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 6 points 3 days ago

I unironically love his films.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I actually avoid his films like the plague!!!!

[–] Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would sell my mother into slavery to experience his works for the first time all over again :')

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

My apologies. I have offended your religion

[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Don't come at me like this. It's all I have

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Jokes on you, I watch Lynch's Dune to find a partner.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 and a little comical.

If someone else appreciates these feelings and wants to share them with me, hell yeah, let's get together.

[–] SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

david lynch make a good movie challenge: 99% fail.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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, and not in a good Linklater-esque way. A shame that's the one he went out on.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

In Heaven, everything is fine…

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