Why Are David Lynch Movies So Weird?

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Twin Peaks Season 1
The Straight Story (Disney+)
Twin Peaks Season 3 (Showtime)

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[raunakxrestha]

"I don't know why people think a film should make sense when they don't accept the fact that life doesn't make sense." - David Lynch

[dannyjokjok]

I feel like David has always been 60 years old some how

[mr.pavone]

12:34 My guess is David Lynch had an absolutely normal childhood during which he was loved and supported appropriately. He's just a smart guy who doesn't self censor too much, he asks himself questions most people never imagine and he explores his ideas in a childlike way without cynicism.




or some shit like that.

[luckyotter]

Lynch's films are the closest thing I've seen in the waking world to dreams. They don't have traditional linear narratives, and at first they seem to make no sense. But they have a strange and compelling kind of dream logic about them, and I just feel on a visceral level that they make perfect sense. It's that same feeling you get when you are dreaming. When you wake up and try to remember, the sequence of events makes no sense, but in the dream it does. Lynch has done the near impossible and captured that in his films. The plots are almost impossible to explain, but when you watch them, everything fits together.

[AngeloLunch]

YES! Lynch isn’t just “oh the surface seems wholesome, well let me spoil that with the horror underneath” it’s “wow! pure joyous wholesomeness truly exists *alongside* and *intermingled* with disturbing horror of wondrous proportions! Quinoa!”

[haunt]

Watching and reading about Lynch and his work made me truly realize that not every piece of art is a puzzle to be solved.

[geephlips]

Ages ago, I knew a guy who worked a little on Twin Peaks. He mentioned a time where a crew member accidentally walked into the shot. Instead of reshooting the scene, Lynch kept it. I was reminded of this anecdote when you mentioned the point being about the process of creation being the goal. Mistakes are part of of the process. Makes you wonder how many other mistakes made it to the final cut, and then triggered decades of speculation about their meaning.

[stevenpictures]

When your movies are as weird as David Lynch, making a normal Disney movie is the most experimental thing he could ever do.

[Birdfishluva]

It’s an absolute shame that we will never see David Lynch at the head of a video game project. I feel like video games are a medium that’s due for a mind like David Lynch to blow open and explore the limits of the art form.

[alexanderarea]

Twin Peaks The Return has a vibe consisting of deep joy that you will not find in most art. This, constrasted with the horror element makes it one of his grander masterpieces in the landscape of art.

[EvanAgee]

The Denny's scene in Mulholland Dr. is one of the greatest in cinema history. The sense of dreadful dreaminess, the anticipation and anxiety; it's unmatched.

[Android]

One of my favorite quotes of all time is a Lynch quote:

"Closure. I keep hearing that word. It's the theater of the absurd. Everybody knows that on television they'll see the end of the story in the last 15 minutes of the thing. It's like a drug. To me, that's the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' We throw in some curve balls. As soon as a show has a sense of closure, it gives you an excuse to forget you've seen the damn thing."

[flushfries]

In the documentary *David Lynch: the Art Life*, he reveals that as a child, one late afternoon, he saw a completely naked, bruised and bloodied woman come out of the woods near his house and sit down on the curb not far down the street. He said that was the first time he ever saw a nude woman, and that it made an impression on him.
I believe that’s where he got the scene in Blue Velvet where Dorthy is in Jeffery’s front yard.

[Dale_Blackburn]

Lynhc is all about sound design. I wish you mentioned his special and amazing use of sound and sub- soundtracks.

[shenkaed]

“To understand his films you have to feel them” - never have I heard a more accurate statement about the work of David Lynch. One of cinema’s true masters still living today.

[Agentshadling]

God, just that one clip of Cooper driving his car makes me want to rewatch Twin Peaks

[Sodacake]

director andrew dominik said it best about lynch: "he makes the mundane threatening"

[acadieux]

At first I was frustrated watching his films, trying to make sense or them, until I realized that I was completely facinated by them even if I did not understand his craft. His films are an emotional experience, not an intellectual experience. Being an actor myself, I would LOVE to have the chance to experience working on one of his

[moppenboek]

What I love about Lynch his films is that there are a lot of things that seem symbolic or rooted in a deeper meaning. They really are like a dream, something you desperately try to figure out even though there is no final explanation. That's why they stick with you and why it's so fun to theorize about.

[MariaVosa]

Eraserhead scarred me for life. That is not hyperbole - no other movie has affected me like that. Some images are etched on my brain ("They don't know if it's a kid yet!").
Finding out he has a YouTube channel feels positively... Lynchian