david lynch’s high caliber crazy

New logs coming soon, but today I stumbled upon this excellent observation in an assessment of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and it’s too long to tweet:

The word “Pretentious” gets thrown around a lot today, but the literal meaning of the word – something akin to ‘pretending to be something it is not’ – is rarely what people mean when they say it. A film can be complex or surreal without pretending anything. To explain that, the films of David Lynch aren’t “weird” just to trick audiences into watching them. They’re “weird” because Lynch is fucking insane, incapable of viewing the world from a rational and linear perspective, and so he presents a small bit of his own madness via celluloid to the audience, inviting them to take whatever from it they want to from it.

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