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David Lynch has died

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jonhohle ◴[] No.42729130[source]
During Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even though I didn’t live in LA. Virtually every day was the same. Very clear. Very still.

I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life. They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way, rather than literally what’s in the screen. He was one of the few directors that I thought of as making weird things that I would enjoy (most of the time), but how could anyone else?

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

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1. timewizard ◴[] No.42730178[source]
Eraserhead is about the fear of being a new father.
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2. jonhohle ◴[] No.42732161[source]
As a father that was much more obvious than when I saw it for the first time at 16 ;-)
3. JKCalhoun ◴[] No.42732837[source]
Perhaps more to the point, the fear that parenthood will destroy "the art life".