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Subject: Little quirk
Date: Jun 21, 2002
Judging by how popular David Lynch is over here in Australia (not very). I think that he has purposely made films so complex and compelling so that you have to see the film more than once and that makes up for the sales of regular films. lol.
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A big part of what makes this movie so challenging (and refreshing) is that there is a great deal of melding of fantasy and reality. Some characters are real, some imagined and some purely symbolic. The moments in which the daydream (as it were) and reality MEET are the ones at once most loaded with significance and most responsible for making the movie so resistant to coherent interpretation. It is at these times that the viewer must abandon all notions of typical story telling convention (like standard chronology and a clear separation of dream and reality) and accept the movie on its own terms. Such acceptance in this case goes well beyond a reasonable suspension of disbelief, but the rewards are commensurately worth the effort.
An illustrative example of the aforementioned melding is a scene about 40% in where Betty (still Betty at this point) has just auditioned for a part (weird scene in itself, lending to many interesting interpretations) and has been taken across the street to the set/auditions for The Sylvia North Story. There she comes face to face with director Adam K ostensibly for the first time. HOWEVER, if the true chronolgy (discerned only after viewing the final scenes) is to be believed, she has already MET Adam. Certainly they trade uneasy, knowing looks of recognition. What's happened here? Betty's dream (if you subscribe to that interpretation) has suddenly, unexpectedly, jarringly met with reality. What's crazy is that at this point in your initial viewing, you have every reason to believe that you're seeing reality being played out in standard time. Dispite how disorienting that all is, the impact of the movie's various themes is much stronger presented in this forum than it could have been in any other. It also pretty much requires you see the movie more than once, which immediately disqualifies the attention span of an unfortuate percentage of moviegoers.
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Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
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Re: wow from Joshua (editor of Offoffoff), Jun 12, 2002
Re: wow from Tashtigo707, Jun 17, 2002
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