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๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ต & ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ผ๐ฒ๐๐๐ธ๐ & ๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ธ๐ฎ
Lynch wasn't some movie director. Behind the camera, he was a philosopher himself. Once he said, โI donโt think that people accept the fact that life doesnโt make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion & myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.โ
Many might not know, but Lynch's filmography is much inspired by both Dostoevsky & Kafka. Actually, David Lynch's favorite books are all big fish! The depth of ideas & storytelling present in these books could inspire anyone. Lynch read most of these books before the 1980s. These are the books David selected as his favorite for his club "Silencio" in Paris.
The Name Above The Title by Frank Capra
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Anonymous Photographs by Robert Flynn Johnson
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Now, this provides a keen insight into Lynchโs working mind. In his film Eraserhead, Lynch never shied away throwing us directly into the abysmal end of fear & despair. Henry views as his past mistakes, his regrets were personal. Isnโt regret something we all have felt at some point in our lives?
The need to โeraseโ our mistakes so we can fulfill our lifeโs dreams without anything coming in the way? But what are we left with if we take all of our experiences & remove every moment of unhappiness and every mistake we ever made? We wouldnโt be left with ourselves, thatโs for sure.
This themes are pretty similar to Dostoevskian style of writing. Dostoevskyโs deep preoccupations on moral ambiguity, guilt & the divided self resonate deeply with the themes explored throughout Twin Peaks, especially with its preoccupation of the portrayal of violence as something not inherently an action, but as metaphysical rupture.
And even Kafka, Twin Peaks carries that eternal sense of alienation. Lynch mirrors Kafkaโs narrative ethos by prioritising atmosphere over exposition. Just how Metamorphosis emphasizes on the setting of the room of Gregor to hike the states of profound epistemological uncertainty.
Lynch wasn't some movie director. Behind the camera, he was a philosopher himself. Once he said, โI donโt think that people accept the fact that life doesnโt make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion & myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.โ
Many might not know, but Lynch's filmography is much inspired by both Dostoevsky & Kafka. Actually, David Lynch's favorite books are all big fish! The depth of ideas & storytelling present in these books could inspire anyone. Lynch read most of these books before the 1980s. These are the books David selected as his favorite for his club "Silencio" in Paris.
The Name Above The Title by Frank Capra
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri
Anonymous Photographs by Robert Flynn Johnson
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Now, this provides a keen insight into Lynchโs working mind. In his film Eraserhead, Lynch never shied away throwing us directly into the abysmal end of fear & despair. Henry views as his past mistakes, his regrets were personal. Isnโt regret something we all have felt at some point in our lives?
The need to โeraseโ our mistakes so we can fulfill our lifeโs dreams without anything coming in the way? But what are we left with if we take all of our experiences & remove every moment of unhappiness and every mistake we ever made? We wouldnโt be left with ourselves, thatโs for sure.
This themes are pretty similar to Dostoevskian style of writing. Dostoevskyโs deep preoccupations on moral ambiguity, guilt & the divided self resonate deeply with the themes explored throughout Twin Peaks, especially with its preoccupation of the portrayal of violence as something not inherently an action, but as metaphysical rupture.
And even Kafka, Twin Peaks carries that eternal sense of alienation. Lynch mirrors Kafkaโs narrative ethos by prioritising atmosphere over exposition. Just how Metamorphosis emphasizes on the setting of the room of Gregor to hike the states of profound epistemological uncertainty.
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