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[–] 34 points 2 months ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I will research just as soon as I'm done replying....

    But you have no idea how little that narrows it down lol

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It narrows it down to exactly one person...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    If you're not familiar with this work, I highly recommend Mulholland Drive, whose two lead actresses are pictured with Lynch in the meme. Twin Peaks is a good option but it's a show and therefore quite long. Then watch Eraserhead if you want to get weird.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago (8 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (16 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?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Lost highway is about Trent Reznor producing an amazing soundtrack.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Blue Velvet was about not fucking looking at Dennis Hopper.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Eraserhead was his most spiritual film.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This scene gets my cry-laughing every time. I want to get into a jam session with some people and lure them into doing this without realizing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Omg that would be amazing. No one in my band watches twin peaks so it would fall on deaf ears but one day I will

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I unironically love his films.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    In Heaven, everything is fine…

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    WHO DO YOU THINK THAT IS THERE?!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Lynch is easy. Refn is hard. I’ve seen Her Private Hell four times now cause a cute girl told me to, and I still have no idea what’s going on beyond “approximately every half hour or so, a girl gets bashed into a window head first and/or her chest torn open, and dies.” It’s got cool neon bullshit though.

    The girl is pretty cute too.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This. Is a donut.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

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

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