I thought Eraserhead was waaaaay easier to understand. If you don't try to derive meaning from every single thing that's shown on screen, and just interpret the main idea of "fatherhood and the responsibility of children are scary"
Lynch deliberately oversaturates his movies with details that looked good in the shot/scenes without any other reason behind them.
After all this time I don't understand how people still get lynched.
My wife hates it with burning passion because it's missing a simple, linear and cohesive narrative. She can't keep up. She wants an Antman movie. Everytime I bring Mulholland drive up in a conversation, she gets irrationally angry.
This happens with me and my friends and it fricking sucks. Every time I try to mention a movie that isn't super cohesive to my friends, they always laugh at me and call me a pretentious brap sniffer
It is how it is. Most people don't want to be confused or think during a movie, they just want a simple story as a distraction, unless they actually enjoy the medium. I don't even bother with showing stuff to my friends anymore, we just watch whatever netflix garbage they feel like watching.
The whole is reality vs expectation of hollywood. The first 2/3rds of it take place in a dream of what a young aspiring actress(Rita/Diane) wishes Hollywood would have been when she arrived there from the midwest, the last act is the actual reality of how hellish Hollywood is, and how it's essentially a complete opposite of what she expected.
She's afraid of the people who tried to kill her but its also part of how Diane is dreaming she is Rita not Betty. Then after she puts on the wig and they go to the club, they become the same person and Diane wakes up. Thats what all the shaking and spazzing is about.
Movies aren't meant to be "understood", they aren't puzzles or riddles where you have to figure out the correct interpretation of "symbols" being shown to you, IE what does x mean, why did y happen, what does z represent etc. Those are false questions derived from a faulty image of thought.
Look into the production of Twin Peaks and how BOB became BOB, there is nothing represented here, Lynch does not know why BOB is BOB.
Lynch put direct literal communication in the film so the audience could figure out the puzzle. The first was in the beginning of the film on the limo license plate which I believe was to simply show the audience that he was going to do this. Then the 2nd license plate at the airport contains the actual clue. And not a normal clue like the ashtray or whatever but an actual literal written message to the audience. Although its a riddle but still there is literally zero context of the clue in the film as opposed to the ashtray for example.
you don't even need the clues. the confusion felt immediately after the movie is lynch succeeding conveying the same feeling after waking up from a dream. the plot's pretty obvious if you think about it for a while
*or the "sos" on the coffee cup. Thats a written message too but the license plate at the airport is apparently literal instructions to the audience for how to figure it out. The "sos" is just another in a long list of simple correlations e.g. dan hedaya yelling help me next to his partner making a big deal about the coffee.
Diane is dreaming she's Rita not Camilla and then has dreams within that dream. The first hour or so follows very strict rules about this.
Ok but I still don't get it, I only liked it because the two girls kissing make my weewee big and it was kinda interesting
Diane paid to have Camilla murdered and then has a dream including dreams within that dream revolving around the guilt. But yes pp go big
Why did Camilla cuck Diane in such a mean way? Does stuff like that really happen in Hollywood?
Personally I thought it was fine and Diane just overreacted a little bit.
Are you joking? Celebs act like animals behind closed doors. Every party is like the Boogie Nights party.
Lynch wanted to let the audience know what Hollywood is like, but he didn't want to get Kubrick'd so he made it a dream to throw off the producers
One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen the only ones that I can think of that comes close are Year One and The Descendants
Filtered
Literally the easiest Lynch joint to understand.
I'd say Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet are easier to understand of the ones I've seen.
Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet are flicks, not joints
I thought Eraserhead was waaaaay easier to understand. If you don't try to derive meaning from every single thing that's shown on screen, and just interpret the main idea of "fatherhood and the responsibility of children are scary"
Lynch movies are way easier to understand with this perspective honestly
Lynch deliberately oversaturates his movies with details that looked good in the shot/scenes without any other reason behind them.
After all this time I don't understand how people still get lynched.
The Straight Story is quite straightforwardly kino.
That would be Dune
That was directed by Alan Smithee
Anytime I ever showed this to anyone it resulted in verbal and/or physical assault
My wife hates it with burning passion because it's missing a simple, linear and cohesive narrative. She can't keep up. She wants an Antman movie. Everytime I bring Mulholland drive up in a conversation, she gets irrationally angry.
This happens with me and my friends and it fricking sucks. Every time I try to mention a movie that isn't super cohesive to my friends, they always laugh at me and call me a pretentious brap sniffer
It is how it is. Most people don't want to be confused or think during a movie, they just want a simple story as a distraction, unless they actually enjoy the medium. I don't even bother with showing stuff to my friends anymore, we just watch whatever netflix garbage they feel like watching.
The whole is reality vs expectation of hollywood. The first 2/3rds of it take place in a dream of what a young aspiring actress(Rita/Diane) wishes Hollywood would have been when she arrived there from the midwest, the last act is the actual reality of how hellish Hollywood is, and how it's essentially a complete opposite of what she expected.
Why is the every little star scene so kino?
I made a frick up in this, Diane's dream name is "Betty", Rita is Camilla's dream name
How's that 4k pussy look?
Looks good hehe.
The lesbian scene makes me diamonds
Me too and I'm normally a pretty big queer, the girl that plays Camilla/Rita has such a nice body
Only part I didn't understand was when Rita puts on a blonde wig. What was the purpose of that?
lol
Great symbolism, wouldn't have figured it out myself.
She's afraid of the people who tried to kill her but its also part of how Diane is dreaming she is Rita not Betty. Then after she puts on the wig and they go to the club, they become the same person and Diane wakes up. Thats what all the shaking and spazzing is about.
Movies aren't meant to be "understood", they aren't puzzles or riddles where you have to figure out the correct interpretation of "symbols" being shown to you, IE what does x mean, why did y happen, what does z represent etc. Those are false questions derived from a faulty image of thought.
Look into the production of Twin Peaks and how BOB became BOB, there is nothing represented here, Lynch does not know why BOB is BOB.
Lynch put direct literal communication in the film so the audience could figure out the puzzle. The first was in the beginning of the film on the limo license plate which I believe was to simply show the audience that he was going to do this. Then the 2nd license plate at the airport contains the actual clue. And not a normal clue like the ashtray or whatever but an actual literal written message to the audience. Although its a riddle but still there is literally zero context of the clue in the film as opposed to the ashtray for example.
you don't even need the clues. the confusion felt immediately after the movie is lynch succeeding conveying the same feeling after waking up from a dream. the plot's pretty obvious if you think about it for a while
you better be a woman
*or the "sos" on the coffee cup. Thats a written message too but the license plate at the airport is apparently literal instructions to the audience for how to figure it out. The "sos" is just another in a long list of simple correlations e.g. dan hedaya yelling help me next to his partner making a big deal about the coffee.
Eyes Wide Shut