The feeling of weird, uneasy, mysterious, and no North is what most people feel after seeing Lynch’s work for the first time. However, Lynch has basically not done text analysis of his films, that is, such as director’s interpretation. He uses his sensory experience to deal with concepts, images, and plots in a straightforward manner. Of course, most people have no evidence to follow. Looking closely at Lynch's background and his films, it feels that most of the experience may come from a surrealist's interest in the spirit, meditation, dreams, hallucinations, and waking states of reality. In the preface of the book "My Heart is Wild-An Interview with David Lynch", it is mentioned that the indefinable "atmosphere" that Lynch is trying to convey is closely related to a kind of intellectual uncertainty, that is, " Lost in the darkness and chaos", this time weird appeared.
Freud said that "the weirdness becomes weird because we are too familiar with it in private", and that "being at ease" and "familiar with common" become "creepy". (Of course Freud is just an index of Lynch, and the big tuo big tuo fans love to use Freud to explain that Lynch’s work is really a simplification and linearization of him. It’s Lacan’s thing, perhaps Can explain more)
Weirdness is expressed in the early aesthetics in describing how the apparently well-familiar interior is interrupted by the terrible intrusion of a foreign existence. This is described in "Rubber Head", "Xiangren", "Blue Velvet", "Twin Peaks" and "Monster Night". "Wandering", you can see Lynch secretly used the dual personality of good and evil as well as the explicit uncertain mysterious characters. With the rise of big cities in the age of industrialization and electronicization, the gaps between people, nature, and history have extended a variety of modern anxiety disorders, which are more manifested as a kind of spatial phobia, the freaks of "Rubber Head", Radiators, factories, tunnels full of jet pipes in the dream of "The Elephant Man", indifferent streets and apartments in the warm town of "Blue Velvet" at night... are all Lin Qi's usual habits brought by the industrial society. Call it the projection under the "ambience" mapping. Most of Lynch's characters are surrounded by empty space and fear, and they are deeply trapped in the geographical environment of the uncertainty of their life. They can't extricate themselves. Insecurity, alienation, lack of direction and sense of balance, this is also one of the reasons for the weirdness. The book says that Lynch often expresses his ideas in abstract ways, so the above points are not very obvious in some films, but they are not hidden. We must trust the sensations brought by our ears and eyes. Through images, these The essence of the abstract will be revealed.
When watching movies, the public always emphasizes stories, scripts and even dialogue (then watching TV shows is not better), but the real filmmakers may pay more attention to the structure of the film, the relationship between the characters, the conception and the perfect combination of the film. The book says that few have explored the most fundamental elements of movies as deeply as Lynch. Lynch’s sensitivity to the structure of sounds and images, to the rhythm of lines and actions, to space, to the essential power of color and music, makes him work at the center of the film, which makes him unique in terms of film language. .
Learning to read pictures may be more difficult, and I am still learning. In the book, Lynch also did not give a specific explanation for each film (when he worked with actors, he did not interpret the script according to the tradition, read the script aloud and coached the actors in their performances, but only gave fragmentary or stance guidance for the clips) . But after reading "Interview" and his related materials, I may not be too entangled in what logical story the movie tells. More importantly, we have seen how Lynch uses his unique lens language---- -The surreal fantasy, the disintegration of spirit, the restless dream, the gloomy black weird, the weird industrial music with strong flavor, reveal to us and explain to us how conflict, collision, confusion, mystery, the material world and the spiritual world of people. Not unique.
To paraphrase a sentence from the book, Lynch's films are always new ones.
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