Mark Kermode has admitted before to being a bit nerdy about finding details in films that turn out to be irrelevant...he admitted to embarrassing himself with Lynn Ramsey. In spite of this Kermode has a classic English self deprecating humor about these gaffes and is a great reviewer
i genuinly think that he doesnt know the meaning exact of his own movies and that's why i love them so much. his filmmaking is more about trying to recreate a certain feeling and atmosphere rather than trying really hard to makeus think about something. watching his movies is like waking up and barely remembering your dreams, but knowing exactly how you felt during them.
That's a really nice description, actually. There are waking moments where I know what I am trying to remember, but I can't visualize it or make it verbal. I have no access to the memory, it's just a hole, and there are moments where I tend to panic. I also recognize this in some of his scenes, especially in Lost Highway.
@@XAVIERSHIMEX Right; he's confirmed in certain interviews that he knows what his films mean, he just doesn't reveal it so as to maintain the anxiety of confusion.
I can picture David Lynch making a death-bed confession: "I just did a bunch of random weird stuff and you all tried to project meaning on it. Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa! "
Nah lol I think there's a lot of meaning behind his films but the funny/random/ocassional stuff "gets in the way", and people try to find meaning behind it when there isn't. Like the famous "Dinner at Winkies" scene from Mulholland Drive, if you compare it to other scenes and other concepts from the movie it means absolutely nothing and it's not related at all (excluding the hobo that appears again later in the film). Is just a display of David's writing and directing skills, with no meaning behind it, and still being a very enjoyable scene because of the way the scene developes.
@@georgeharrison5753 He doesn't base anything off of dreams, he explicitly stated that several times. Although he has many ideas while daydreaming/meditating.
@@georgeharrison5753 He did mention that he day dreams a lot and that's where his thought process starts to really work. Not so much that he gets his ideas from his dreams, more that he works them out in his daydreams, and he does consider daydreaming to be similar to regular dreaming, just with more control.
Lynch's genius isn't in the plot, or actually story, it's in how he tells it. I watched an interview of him explaining Lost Highway, a collaboration that he described as two people meshing ideas together, and he didn't remember much about it or how they came to the ideas or what certain things meant. The genius is taking all these obscurities and turning THEM, the vague ideas of something, into a movie.
I just think it's so weird that a knowledgeable film critic would use his valuable interview time to say "yo when there's electricity between two poles in your movies -- does this mean brain connections? please say yes"
I think Lynch is one of two things: Either he's the filmmaking equivalent of an Impressionist painter, that is to say, that he doesn't quite fully comprehend or know how to articulate what's in his mind, so he simply creates art in an effort to convey what's in his mind to everyone else; or he's got no idea what he's doing, and just has a talent for making bizarre and entertaining cinema. Either way, I feel like the term "genius" is accurately applied to him. He's either a madman who knows what he's doing, or he's a madman who doesn't. The fact that either way, the end result is still compelling, is a mark of genius.
He is by definition a genius/master because of his cultural impact. many filmmakers mimic and adore him, he is like picasso but for filmmaking, it might not make total sense, but it expanded art in some way, that is something that very VERY few artists can actually claim to have done.
I genuinely think he just wakes up and thinks of stuff on the spot, he doesn’t have a plan or a certain message he wants to tell. He just lets it happen, which is why his films are so unique. Edit: Or even has a vague dream of something and just goes with that, creating a story for it and molding it around that.
It could not be a yes. That isn’t how lynch thinks when he creates. He has said his himself. According to Lynch: it is not an intellectual process. Creating is an intuitive one. The ideas are abstract, not concrete. If lynch really was making a statement concerning neural firing synapses - that would be neuroscience and that is concrete and intellectual. Not abstract and intuitive.
it probably means something, but real artists rarely know everything their work means, at least while they're creating. you do what feels right and the meaning bubbles up from below the conscious level
@@jernie9384 "The OWLs are not what they seem" might have some connection with electricity as well -- as in Open-Wire Line (OWL)". Especially in Fire Walk with Me and season 3, we see a lot of these electrical lines.
After reading his book and digesting a bit of his non-film media, I think David’s been put on Earth to remind us of our right to interpret art for ourselves. While this viewpoint of synapses might be off-base, I’m positive that David is elated that it was explored and given meaning at all, even to one person.
I love how everyone starts giggling the second he asks "Am I at least in the right area" because they all know how Lynch is going to react to that question lol
I thought about this too honestly! But I heard him say in a recent interview that he doesn’t really keep up with films and said art house is dead , but i think he might enjoy robbert eggers work , I loved the witch and watched the lighthouse 5 times, I love the Greek mythology entangled in it.
I love Mark Kermode and for me, he may very well be right; it honestly doesn't matter; great art makes us think, and we will think and draw conclusions from our personal perspective, not that of the director, or painter, or poet, or composer. Not if the art is great.
Kermode takes it quite well though...I find Lynch and other "unexplainable" artists liberating because as a person who uses a lot of words to my detriment (I identify with Kermode here) they free me from feeling I have to explain why I like them. (oops word nerd that I am, I just did)
Truly great art affects you in ways that can't be explained by reasoning. If you do, the magic will be lost, the greatness reduced to something simple. Why would you want to do that?
this should also be sent to that video who thinks they have worked out what twin peaks is about also. am sure david would have the same answer for them too.
"but am i in the right area" the right area the right area you wouldn't want to have a singular right answer if you thought about it. he's a filmmaker not a maths teacher
TM is not about trying to read Davids mind and form the same ideas some people are like minded some are not. If I had to guess I think David just likes light and symmetry.
That’s what I hate about being in film school, I’m always forced to make something with some “deeper meaning” when all I wanna do is make weird shit that entertains people.
funny....why do people always try to see one meaning inside of abstract art? what david does is abstract art...everybody may have his own interpretation, including David himself...
@@matman000000 mostly agree but honestly I think TP season 3 may have also been abstract, in its relationship to characters, whether they are separate, real, transforming, etc
Why would you ask an artist what they meant... Either you get what they meant or you didn't... And if you didn't then move on to the next artist... Kermode... Never trust a man who sounds very much like he was named after a toilet... He hated Blue Velvet when it was released because he didn't understand it, then got punched in the face for his review... And then he changed his review to that it was amazing...
