• disorderly@lemmy.world
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    I absolutely love some of Lynch’s work but will openly confess that I have no idea what he was trying to tell me.

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      Surrealist art is intended to speak to the subconscious. I have a feeling this is why Lynch didn’t like to explain the meaning of his films. Emotional understanding emphasised over intellectual understanding.

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        Well put. A director that mutes all others in comparison. Plenty of great directors address the audience, Lynch displays it all in such a way as to inexplicably yet certainly speak to you and you alone

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      imho, it all boils down to two simple things:

      1. We live inside a dream, but who is the dreamer?
      2. You can’t go back home.