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I feel like absolute shit. Need the funniest, cozy, comfy, feel-good films that will make me feel better.

Just finished my first David Lynch film: Mulholland Drive.

Safe to say - I did not understand anything.

Now I’m not someone who’s gonna hate on a film just because I did not understand it. Take Christopher Nolan’s Tenet for example. I didn’t understand it completely, but I sure as hell loved every minute and the concept of it.

Now let’s take that to Mulholland Drive. What’s there to love? I couldn’t care about the characters at all. Now there are some aspects that I did like, I’m a big horror fan and some sequences were scary and had me thinking about what might happen next, some good chills, I’ll give it that.

But the script felt like it was two different scripts, forcefully merged into one. The last 10 minutes felt like they were written and filmed on cocaine. The film loses all control.

Now obviously there’s probably some big metaphor behind it and people are just gonna slap that or say “I didn’t understand anything so 10/10”, but I ask… why?

Why is it that Lynch can just say his film isn’t supposed to be narratively coherent and that makes it a good film?

Why is it that Lynch can just make something so random and people will treat it like cinema?

I bet if I made something super random and placed a “Directed by David Lynch” on it, everyone will find some metaphor or meaning behind it and absolutely love it.

So I’m genuinely asking - no rage bait - why do people love David Lynch films? And more important, am I not a proper film lover if I can’t bring myself to films like these as supposed to say Christoper Nolan’s catalog?