![]() I’d never seen anything quite like it before. I vividly remember how Blue Velvet shook me to the core after watching it alone late one night on a scratchy VHS. ![]() Lynch has cited Kafka as one of his artistic heroes, but at his best I’d put him with the likes of ace surrealists like Buñuel and Dalí who, for all their subversion and radicalism, believed that surrealism was to be found in everyday life - the crucifix found at a flea market that instantly clicked into a switchblade, for example. I could conceivably see how some people might think that Eraserhead was funny, but anybody who claims it’s a laugh riot either has an incredibly dark sense of humor or is trying way too hard to sound hipper than thou. Twin Peaks had a light tone and there are some funny bits in some of the other work (I mean, come on, who takes Wild at Heart seriously?) but Lynch isn’t known for a taking a comic view of the human condition. ![]() Of the many things that could be attributed to the films of David Lynch, a sense of humor would be pretty low on the list. A scene featuring Jack in David Lynch’s “What Did Jack Do?”
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