In a message dated 7/1/2002 1:41:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
eryk@maine.rr.com writes:>
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> No way Herman. Mulholland Drive is a movie completely about the
> schizophrenia of the the star system
> and belief in personal genius. I am shocked you are not interested.

OK I might be just lazy about it. However, Dr. Pepper commercials murder me.
Anything advertised.

I'm skeptical about David Lynch. Everyone worships him and it gives me the
suspicions. I did see MD on the lardge screen for full price. I also have,
as Natalie said, a fear of being hit by my dad and an inferiority complex. I
fear and envy David Lynch, which may be a disease that I have, rather, a
defect of projecting my own insecurities onto him, Mr. Lynch, this auteur in
the ether.

There's the insanity part–the old people chasing the crazy actress
mentally–and then the dirty monster-thing behind the diner dumpster. It's a
well-crafted film and takes you into an insane/homicidal mind without
warning. It ends in tragedy; I wonder if Lynch has a tragedic dramaturgy of
symbol I could bust him on.

Eraserhead and Dune are also about the insanity of personal genius, or
another take on what I'm digging lately, the crisis of individuality vs.
isolation. MD made me think of "punishment of yourself." the whole
narrative line is a psycho dream, remembering/waking up, then suicide, i.e.
that is weird too.

I will admit my take on movies and art, and hekka other stuff since 9-11 is
diff. I might fall in love with an m&m's shirt to my version of tears; and
find a Strokes' song (don't buy stuff, just overhear, that's me) to infer
ethical and air conditioning dilemmas.

One might not say art should be judged as air conditioning. I think lately
it can be.

Maybe the best thing is for me as a critic to spell out my rationale or
standards but they are not simple, so I'll just blurt stuff out, who knows
who's hearing what, it could be they know about ts eliot or they don't. That
makes me schizophrenic too, but that word is so loaded. It's not necessarily
bad, for one, this madness. It can be the .001% of production that drives
value to the envelope. Lynch supported Reagan and in my opinion has made
mistakes of art, that show up in his film.

Now that is insane. I have said that Lynch makes mistakes of art, possibly,
even though I support non-hierarchical standards. Immediate error being, if
mistakes are worse than successes, isn't that hierarchical?

I don't mind talking and thinking about Mulholland Drive–I just wouldn't
recommend someone go see it if their goal is to study Genius 2000. To see a
good movie about tragedy, celebrity, and sexdod. I think if someone
mentioned Genius 2000 to you for the first time after seeing MD, you might
cry. No way of knowing.

So yes I could be wrong, there's that 99%. I could also be right! Being
human all's I can do is say that in the levels of enlightenment, MD is yes
also at the top level, whatever that is, along with all other top-level
items. I wouldn't be able to critique Lynch, might it be that he's too
Aristotelian? Auteuran?

Yes, MD is about global psychic hubris and thus perhaps a noble segue to g2k,
I admit it–but not really.

Jon

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