Comment by SideburnsOfDoom

> I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative.

His movies are not supposed to be "got" completely. They are surrealist. They have the logic of dreams. Or nightmares. There are things in them that won't ever make literal sense.

Any film school graduate can string together some random images and call it "surreal", and mostly those would be boring. but Lynch was a master: in his films, all too often, just as your conscious mind was going "wait, what?" some subconscious voice would be nodding "yes, that fits".

Trasmatta 2 days ago

Yes! I tell people to focus on the emotions that come up when they watch his stuff, and to focus less on trying to piece everything together.

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PittleyDunkin 2 days ago

I want to push back on the surreal end slightly. It's true that his movies are extremely resistant to analysis, and it's true that much of his imagery is de-facto surreal. But his movies still have narratives assembled from humans in concrete situations with concrete problems and easily understandable actions and reactions. In other words, you can enjoy his movies as an experience at relative face-value in a way many other forms of surreal art resist.

Some more than others, perhaps—the man produced Dune and Eraserhead pretty damn close together, and Eraserhead is not generally considered an easy movie to watch. But the man was never afraid or dismissive of giving us straightforwardly enjoyable cinema, even if we can't easily articulate why!

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magarnicle 2 days ago

Sort of. The plot is not always clear, but what is always clear is how you are supposed to feel in each scene.

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