RSSNice piece. thankyou. Lynch is a truly great film-maker, the greatest since Kubrick. His worst films are better than most directors’ best films. Unfortunately most people have vitiated tastes, vitiated by a steady diet of entertainment. Art throws them. Lynch’s work certainly deserves such lengthy and passionate analysis as it is given here.
Lynch is said to have a dark vision, but I think he simply holds up a mirror. we do not like what we see there. Lynch gives us truth, but we want lies. therein lies the difference between art and entertainment. Lynch gives us art.
the Wizard of Oz is probably the greatest film ever made, hollywood at its absolute best (or, in a way, vaudeville at its best). Oz is a very deep film, very dark, with only the barest thread of hope. the way Wild at Heart references Oz makes a lot of sense.
imo, Lynch’s greatest film is Mulholland Drive. The land of dreams is, as Lynch rightly shows, a land of nightmares. My favorite Lynch film is Straight Story, a beautifully simple film, probably Lynch’s most hopeful. straight Story isn’t well known, so it’s good to see it mentioned here.
This is just the usual blatant straw man argument from Saker of course: anyone who is critical of Putin’s sickening collusion with Israel must want to see Israel bombed. Of course, only a psychopath wants to see anyone bombed, regardless of how much they might deserve it in terms of karma. I think that what reasonable people would like to see is for Russia to either stop providing defensive weapons to Syria that do not work or stop preventing Syria from effectively using those weapons to defend itself.