Bought the "Twin Peaks" prequel for $4 in a bargain bin yesterday, and, once I got it to work (Lynch's DVD's are maddening, not the least because there are no chapter menus), I was ravished all over again (except for the substitution of Moira Kelly for Lara Flynn Boyle). I can't imagine a more terrifying depiction of incestuous rape and murder...and anything more psychologically plausible than Laura seeing her father as possessed by some mystical force of evil named Bob (because the truth was even more horrifying...)
Clearly, then, Lynch is psychologically interesting, and cathartic of our deepest repressed desires and fears. But is his work interesting philosophically? If so, how?
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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