What the fuck did I just watch?

What the fuck did I just watch?
Someone enlighten me please

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Lynch coming to terms with his own fears of parenthood

this is actually accurate
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Ok. That makes sense. But who or what was the deformed guy pulling levers representing?

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Did he do it for free?

David Lynch is about mood. He’s about feelings. He’s about triggering something deep within all of us. For over four decades, the American filmmaker has twisted the senses of his audiences, blurring whatever lines exist between reality and somewhere else. It’s why he’s often considered an eccentric auteur, an untraditional talent in an industry that capitalizes on the traditional. But for all his quirks and chaos, there’s an assured vision, one that isn’t going for the weird for weird’s sake, and that’s what separates him from anyone who opens a strange door to simply find strange.

Lynch making an intentionally vague and disjointed movie.

The people who really like this sort of thing tend to think surreal imagery equates to depth.

OP here. Which of his movies should I watch next?
Already watched The Elephant Man, which I loved by the way

Watch Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, then Mulholland Drive

Lynchs only good movie.

Fate. Inevitability. The passage of time. You name it.

Ok
I liked The Elephant Man desu

So why did he get joy out of his actions?
He smiled in the end

Because he killed himself.

I'm confident enough in my intellect to call Lynch trash

What said

I never watched the movie, only cinemassacre's review, but I'll act as if

Yeah. Bit why should fate care about this. Fate will come over him sooner or later

*But
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Fuck smartphones desu

It is intentionally vague, but the point is that it can interpreted multiple different ways. I think people like it because of the emotions it evokes and how unique it is not necessarily because they think it's deep.

watch it like this
>the straight story
>wild at heart
>mulholland drive
>lost highway
>inland empire

then you watch twin peaks and fire walk with me and dune

I'm not a fan of planing this far ahead.
But thanks for the input.
Here, have a pic of my cat

youre welcome
best way to watch them if you ask me

cute cat
looks friendly and cozy

Who else here /wanttoseemyknees/?

/canmovehisarm/ here!

Was he having a baby while making this film? Was Lynch married in that time?

Since this thread is Lynch, I'll ask here. I'm 8 minutes into Dune and I'm a little confused with some of the terms for various entities so far. The set pieces and effects are pretty good though.

Should I continue or put something else on such as Blue Velvet/Eraserhead? This is my first David Lynch film.

Watching Dune at all is your first mistake.

Is it really that bad as people have said?

Critics have panned it and Lynch regrets it. It's not really indicative of Lynch's style anyway.

I think you're right. What the fuck is going on?

its Pontypool lynchcore Cred Forums ?

No idea. Just shut it off and watch Eraserhead already!

Dune is best seen if you read the book first to understand what everything actually is.

I get that it's about the guy's fear of parenthood, but why does the chicken start bleeding? That happens before he finds out about the pregnancy.

Also I thought the ending was very shocking, predictable but the way it was done seemed rather horrific. Were there scenes like that before Eraserhead was released?

When I was pledging a frat in college they locked us in a room and made us watch this movie for 24 hours straight on repeat.

I kind of saw it as disturbing sexual imagery. The chicken kind of reminded me of a person on their back, exposing their...you know.

Yeah, I got that as well. But I mean why was it there? I can understand if it was after he was told about the pregnancy, but the guy had no reason to be afraid at the time, did he?

Two theories:
1. The dinner scene was meant to set a mood that continues throughout the rest of the movie, and everything that happens is just a premonition of what's to come.

2. Henry is afraid of sex on some level.

>2. Henry is afraid of sex on some level.
I was thinking it could be that, but I've never heard someone say it before. I thought it may have just been an oversight on Lynch's part.

Idk. I'm not sure if it has an explicit purpose, but it does its job of creating a sexual and disturbing theme.

Some say it's a metaphor for sex

The film doesn't have much meaning

Lynch is not the kind to fill every scene with metaphors and hidden meanings

got it right imo

Dunno. The fuck is that shit?

The Man in the Planet is Henry's brain. The Lady in the Radiator is his heart.

you watched a nice midwestern boy's scary dream about unintented pregnancy.

Don't look too much into it or you'll lose the feeling which is deeper and more important.

Woah.

This is the most popular theory but I think Lynch has actually shot it down. I think his answer was way more general and vague, not really about a specific situation like parenthood.

Pretentious nonsense thats designed to be 2deep4u

Lynch said he has never heard someone understand what the real "meaning" behind the movie is. As if it is too patrician for all of us, the only way that can be true is if he did a terrible job of conveying his message or if its designed to come up with a lot of bullshit theories that dont fully make sense

His wife at the time was pregnant with his first child at the time, and he was TERRIFIED at the prospect of his daughter being born deformed. He had no specific reason for this, it was just a fear of his.

>Lynch said he has never heard someone understand what the real "meaning" behind the movie is.

Have you ever thought that maybe it's because he doesn't want to give a definite answer and wants people to come up with their own interpretations of it?

>terrified his daughter would be deformed
>she is born with two club feet
pottery

only watch dune if you like the books, normies won't enjoy it otherwise.

So Cred Forums, what was the bible verse?

>only watch dune if you like the books

I disagree, that tends to cause a lot of people to just constantly compare it to the book.

The problem is a lot of people can't help but make that comparison, but I really feel like Dune's strength is in what it does differently.
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it's too haphazard and non-explanatory enough to be enjoyable unless you already know what's happening before you go in.

t. someone who watched before and after reading

out of interest, what do you think it did differently that worked to its advantage?

Something about a weirdo being a weirdo and having a kid when he's a weirdo that shouldn't have kids.

I kinda liked the whole voice of god devices they had, because if they went like the books did, people would just watch how he trained the Fremen and say, "....so he turned them into Jedi?"

If you're talking about the end when the levers are grinding and stuff, it seemed to me more like The Man in the Planet was grimacing in pain rather than smiling.

Just watch the whole movie and judge for yourself you fucking pleb.

Dune is a great campy scifi with great sets and costumes, enjoy it for what it is.

I agree. There's also the litter of pups making suckling sounds through the whole scene. Just another layer of discomforting atmosphere.

I watched the Dune movie before reading the books and all i knew about Dune before that was there are giant worms and spice. The movie was awesome and anyone who says you need to read the books first is a turbo pleb with ADHD, its not a hard film to follow.

Not him but it's not that Dune is hard to follow, it's more that there's a lot of things in the movie that only make sense with the context of the books

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>there's a lot of things in the movie that only make sense with the context of the books

Nah m8. Princess Irulan's intro at the start sets everything up. If you can't comprehend what's going on after being literally told what is happening (several times through out the film) you may need adderall.

I don't think they ever explain what a calculator is in the movie and why they use that over computers. It's been years but I'm pretty sure they never say.

The ipad thing Paul uses in his intro scene says that Mentats are human computers. The why is unimportant.

>The why is unimportant.

Actually is IT kind of important since Mentats use spice and a big reason everyone needs spice is BECAUSE computer technology was banned after the nuclear war.

it IS*

All that is literally unimportant to the plot and is just windowdressing.

you moron, princess exposition explains the importance of spice and briefly introduces the guild. that's it. the rest of movie flies by without background, reasoning or clarification.

it might make sense to super autists such as yourself, but when you watch the movie the terminology and even a lot of character motivations occur without stopping to further examine or explore.

yeah i know it's bait fuck you

It's not windowdressing, it's worldbuilding, something that Herbert was praised for because he did it so well.

>I didn't understand the movie, but the poster who did is the moron

wew lad

Dune works, sorta. The fact is it's a mess and it adds in things that make you question why they're there (I get why Harkonnen would put the heart tube on his servants because he's an asshole, but why would he put one on himself?).

I mean the film's not awful or a bastardization of the original material or anything, and like Harlan Ellison said it holds up, but it's still one of those "if I'm changing channels and it's on I'll watch it, but I won't go out of my way to watch it" movies

You do realise film and books are 2 completely different forms of storytelling right?

>The fact is it's a mess and it adds in things that make you question why they're there

It's set 8000 years in the future, shits meant to be weird.

I never read the books, but I enjoyed the movie for what it was. It has its moments.

Yes, and books are the superior medium

But worldbuilding is important, it makes the audience feel like this world could actually exist, it allows for greater levels of suspension of disbelief which is important in science fiction.

>i don't know what i'm responding to, i just like to shitpost

>I'm autistic and can't handle that the film did things differently

Kill yourself

Yes, I am actually autistic. But it doesn't change that I felt that the movie failed to properly create a world that was believable in comparison to the book. The plot itself is essentially just Paul Atreides going through the hero's journey.

>The plot itself is essentially just Paul Atreides going through the hero's journey.

Exactly. And the film would be a bloated boring piece of shit if it was filled with unnecessary worldbuilding.

Go watch the godawful 3-hour fan cut if you want worldbuilding.

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