David Lynch inspires magic nightmares

“Sound and picture: there are two senses involved. It can really do something. It covers so many different things; you can’t get the same feeling from any other art form. And no one has really figured out even yet how powerful it is. I don’t ever want to figure it out so it’s like a mathematical thing, but I really want to explore it in a ‘feeling’ way, really learn about this business of pacing and what goes next to what, and think in terms of sound and picture real close together.” — David Lynch, The Atlantic

I just watched Mulholland Drive. Horrible visuals and a disgusting message but it was brilliant. It was my first introduction to surrealism in modern age, a take on magic realism which I want to begin experimenting with in my own films. And it showed a series of scenes and vignettes that critics believe to be fully satisfying but all added up are satisfying. Which I guess is what some people enjoy in films. Lynch is a true artist. And I appreciate the symphony of emotions be brought up. The acting by Naomi Watts was extraordinary, the way she changed in the second half into her “true” self.

And I liked the old fake happy people who turned into small cockroaches.

My personal taste of film is sweeter, I enjoy finding the lighter sides of humanity, I like grass and water. Lynch likes machinery and smoke and fire. To each is own. He is a connoisseur of surrealist film for sure and I will definitely learn and grow from his work.

But yesh, can’t we have some laughs, some good outtakes of humanity? Something to remind us that the subconscious doesn’t always live in Hell. I know hollywood is an engine of distrust and disaster, but I want to believe somewhere in there resides love and honor and pride and integrity somewhere out there?!?! Maybe not in Hollywood….but hopefully in the psyches of a few artists out there. Would love to find them and create surrealism and magic told through a base level of optimism.

fingers crossed I can sleep and dream of NOT blue boxes…Or pre-recorded existence (which was my favorite part of the film, the operetta and the lady with the blue hair, silence…).

xocoCH