Eraserhead

[Teuthida]

I'll have to check out Dune. Was also considering seeing Mulholland Dr. Suppose to be confusing yes?

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I'll have to check out Dune. Was also considering seeing Mulholland Dr. Suppose to be confusing yes?

Very. Lynch has a tendency to just thow weird up onto a movie screen to see if it sticks. One of my professors said something very profound abouy Lynch, and I'll paraphrase here:

"If art is not made to be understood by an audience, in the end all the artist is doing is babbling to himself."

I tend to agree with him. Yes, Kubrick was often times cryptic, but even if you didn't understand his films fully, you knew there was an underlying meaning and artful presentation that would reveal itself through repeated viewings. It took me at least 5 viewings of 2001 before I understood its brilliance and meaning (one that few agree with but I am certain of) but I always knew there was something there to discover. Lynch often just comes off as plain odd for the sake of odd.

[DeathsHand]

Only Lynch movie I've seen was Mulholland Dr.... I dunno, I thought it was pretty rad...

Actually I'll admit, I've only watched it once and, for the most part, I didn't understand a lick of it...

But as I do with most extremely confusing things that I've found mildly amusing, I looked for discussions about it online... And after reading various people point out various things, it ended up more-or-less making sense...

As for Eraserhead... Havn't seen it... But I suppose I'll check it out...