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Is this why The Return is so loved? I’m on my first rewatch after having rewatched every David Lynch movie (and loving them all even more).

EVEN INLAND EMPIRE.

So why the hell is this thing so impenetrable?

Good things aside, Part 8. Easily the peak of his career.

But that’s also the peak of the entire thing. I don’t even care about cooper, Dougies the heart of this show period.

But it’s the fluff of all these side plots. The jacoby stuff the sweeping even sometimes the FBI stuff with Gordon and Albert meander, like that hotel scene.

I thought a rewatch I’d appreciate it more. But I don’t.

It’s like it’s all sides of lynch thrown at me at once but there’s only one side I like of him and that’s when he’s so out there with the surrealism and alternate dimension black lodge purple void atom bomb stuff,

Everything else really does seem pointless :/

Am I supposed to be frustrated? Can I at least know why the nature of this thing is the way it is? A critique on nostalgia you’ll probably say.

Maybe I shouldn’t have watched it in one sitting (technically 2, split into 9 parts each)

ok first imma describe what maybe caused it

I watched like 3 movies yesterday, the third one ending at 11 or so.

I was consuming a lot of media that day for sure.

Then… I went to sleep.

I wasn’t conscious for like the first hour maybe. Suddenly I was remembering the movies. The faces in the movies. I knew I was sleeping. I didn’t like that feeling. Hearing my breath. Being self aware that I was sleeping.

I thought “Ok I just need to feel it out. Stop trying to overthink like I always do”.

So I did that.

Suddenly the faces started smiling. Fucking sinisterly. And then…

I plunge. Like a dive into the ocean. It feels like sleep paralysis almost. My breathing intensifies and I’m conscious and self aware through all of it. It’s a nightmare but I know im basically awake. Yet I can’t move. I can’t open my eyes. I can just breathe and see those smiling fucking faces.

Is this gonna last forever? This darkness, this betrayal of my own imagination? When will I wake up

I do.

. One of 3 things can happen from here.

1. It’s another layer of a dream and i get betrayed by my own mind again
2. It’s real, but every time i try to fall back asleep im always gonna be consciously-sleeping, potentially living through another waking nightmare
3. I lucid dream?!?!?! (this only happens if it’s not a nightmare and im like a ‘layer below conscious’, like i know im asleep but i can also create my surroundings and fly and stuff, idk how i do that)

Dream experts, help. Not going back to sleep that’s for sure.

I watched 2 Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali films: Un Chien andalou and Lage Dor

One thing I noticed is, compared to some surrealist films I’ve seen today, these truly don’t have an interpretation.

It even borders on the line of comedy, a recurring gag of kicking animals/blind people into the stratosphere, or a woman nonchalantly leading a cow from her bedroom.

I feel like I haven’t seen this sort of energy in a film before. It’s truly meaningless and there’s no point in even deriving an interpretation from any of it.

Even in Lynch films, I can only think of Inland Empire that’s truly “absurdist”, but there’s still general themes and interpretations that are commonly held in his works.

But are there any true modern absurdist works that are just insane and don’t even care about meaning anything?

Every lynch film I view through an analytical lens. Is this necessarily wrong? I sometimes spend hours creating my own interpretation of events , sorta viewing it like a puzzle, and even getting satisfied when I think I have my solution.

I acknowledge that other people have other solutions.

But the thing is I prefer this way of viewing films rather than feeling them. I know lynch films is all about the emotions you feel rather than being all analytical and stuff. And I know some of his works can’t be really interpreted at all (like Inland Empire)

The thing is I do remember Lynch saying something about how audiences like being detectives and that clues are apart of all his works, so im kinda conflicted. Clues mean there is an answer, but then is it subjective?

If he didn’t reveal the killer in Twin Peaks, would that solution also be subjective??

Anyway What do you guys prefer doing when watching his films? Do you let it wash over you (like I assume most people do), do you try and dissect it plot wise, both, or something else?

I feel like it’s devoid of what makes twin peaks so great. It’s very obviously the studio needing to conclude the conflict that they themselves forced Lynch into resolving.

Revealing the whisper is kind of cheesy and idk none of this episode really works for me.

Lonely Souls sure is when the reveal truly happened but Lynch found a way to make it terrifying as shit and effective.

After THAT episode he quit right? (Until the S2 finale which is immediate you can tell who the fuck is back running the show)

So i consider the 2 episodes after Lonely Souls + the filler eps not even Lynch’s vision and it’s all studio BS, but that’s probably a controversial take.

I just turned 19 and I’ve never changed before. How do I start changing.

My days consist of bed rotting and daydreaming and having no friends or anyone who texts me. No hobbies or anything interesting. Just watching movies and music. That’s the only reason I live.

I have convinced myself my worldview is the only worldview. That everyone has turned against me. Everyone will hurt me so I can’t get too close.

Nobody loves me. I don’t love me. I don’t shower. I hate me. I hate myself. I want someone to just hold me and save me and rescue me from my misery.

I’ve been like this for 10 years I think. It felt that way.

Everyone else has friends and goes to parties and has hobbies and goes to college and has a career and things they love and people they love and they love themselves and they shower and they go outside and climb mountains or skate or do interesting things.

I don’t and my brain is hard wired maybe to never change and to be lonely forever and ever and be miserable forever and ever and I hope im not one of those 49 year olds who stays in their moms house or else I’ll kill myself now.

Do I just do that kill myself

I’ve been lonely and self hating and this way for so long life is so short too it’ll just go on and on and on and then it ends and nothing will happen in the few years I have left because maybe I have cancer or some disease the way im living because I don’t do anything for myself and I have no reason to take care of myself and I should just die because nobody wants me alive.

Someone tell me how to change before I blow my brains out because life isn’t even worth living. Someone tell me where I can find someone who will take care of me and save me and text me every day and ask “how are you” and hug me and always be there for me I need that person right now but nobody is ever there for me so I should just die.

I want to die someone help me please.