The distorted reality of Lynch
David Lynch is definitely the one who inspires me. He combines different kind of elements in his movies so it becomes interesting, he does not use only drama to tell his story. Many film studies say that you need to be consistent with your idea. If you are working on drama then you need to stay focused to that genre if you add too many other genres it will mix into something barely understandable and to balance many genres needs a great artistic vision. And Lynch found his way.
Life has all the spectrums and Lynch uses each of them very beautifully. Sometimes he even seems out of balance. The scenes can last extremely long and contain almost no details that we crave it to end, however it seems that Lynch wants to test us. Life can be as monotonous as the scenes, so why do we react negatively to the slow pace? And one of the reasons is the great technological pace of life when a modern person cannot sit down and watch a slow movie and fully emerge into the world and the lack of action.
Lynch rarely has the quick cutting between the scenes and always shows the meditative side of cinema. You can see it even more clearly in the new Twin Peaks series. It is also interesting to look at his work and analyze it from various perspectives. However, Lynch suggests that (oh well!) he has his perspective and therefore can create the meaning for himself. Thus he does not like to share his interpretations.
Lynch proposes the other side of our life we prefer not to notice. The weird and funny sometimes way too stereotypical characters reveal the comedy situations and the strange world we live in. The perfect bright atmosphere reveals the dark dirty secrets underneath the surface. The death of Laura Palmer makes the whole town to accept the evil existing, proposing that everything we see might be not as it seems. A friendly neighbor may turn out to be a killer or a rapist. A smiling person may have drug or alcohol addiction and so on.
Lynch proposes the darkness living not only in forests of Twin Peaks but also inside ourselves. The evil that sometimes takes a human form can represent that negative dark features of our mind that always had been hidden from society and even ourselves but when we start learning about them, we become different. Lynch wants to show us that surrealistic dreams we have may turn out to take place in life. And what we think is normal and standardized to us may also be distorted and bizarre. Lynch combines the surrealistic elements with the real life and that is why the audience loves Lynch and can relate to his stories. If that would be simply surrealistic exploration of any situation then the viewer would not make any sense of it, but when the main characters try to investigate their own dark nature and emerge into somebody’s secrets it becomes truly understandable because Lynch suggests that human nature is dark, mysterious and completely subjective.
