• mindbleach
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    9 months ago

    I do not give a shit about David Lynch. I respect some of what he’s going for, and the people who like his work, but it always feels like alien commentary on pop culture, for pop culture I wasn’t paying attention to in the first place. Gorlax really nails those Kardashians! Mulholland Drive… sure is a sequence of images!

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        9 months ago

        Haven’t seen it, probably won’t. I’ve heard enough to respect that he was taking a swing at high melodrama as overpriced soap operas, but I don’t want to watch a satire any more than I’d want to watch the real thing. I find it fascinating that Japan adored his comically heightened view of small-town Americana, but King Of The Hill has a similar distinction, and I don’t watch that either.

        I liked Dune. Completely ridiculous, and an absolute tragedy we didn’t get Jodorowsky’s version, but he understood just how bizarre and uncomfortable the story got, and had a reasonable level of disrespect for his audience. I’ve had family express confusion over the Villienenneuuve version and unironically recommended the Lynch version as a low-intensity explainer with crazier character design.

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          9 months ago

          he was taking a swing at high melodrama as overpriced soap operas

          That’s not how I would describe it

          And it’s not really a satire at all