David Lynch's childhood ambition was to become a calligraphy and engraving artist, and later he studied with the most prominent artist in Vienna - Oscar Kokoschka - known as the "Freud of painting", and his expressionist portraits Called "Black Portrait". Lynch studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts after returning from school and began experimenting with filmmaking.
Lynch is good at making full use of the elements of genre films, dismantling genre films into fragments and then mixing and reconstructing allegorical stylized, game-like creation process showing the artistic style of postmodernism. At the same time, he is also an all-rounder in the contemporary American film industry, maintaining a fine balance between mainstream and surrealism, mercilessly exposing the dark and extreme violence of real life on the screen, so that the work radiates Unique personal charm.
Therefore, Lynch's films cannot be treated with logical thinking at all. You can make countless plausible plots based on all the plots, but Lynch himself may not have a clear answer. For example, the later "Inland Empire" has no script at all, and every scene is improvised. Therefore, it is not without reason that the film is called "the eighth art". For this film and even some other brain-burning films, you can find a plot that you are satisfied with, but if you taste it carefully, most of them are illusory and irrational subjective explanations. Anyway, I feel that there is no practical significance, that is, I can give myself a comfort, and I may forget it the next day.
Of course, some brain-burning films, such as "Fateful Memories" and "Memento" and even "Shutter Island" and "Inception" are supported by realistic logic: either everything happens for real, or there is a clear and reasonable boundary between reality and fantasy , so we can figure out the ins and outs. That's all, when most of a movie has no realistic logic, it's better to appreciate it.
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